
Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea (born October 31, 1946, Belfast, United Kingdom), aged 79, is an Irish actor. Rea has served as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Rea's honours include Theatre World Award, honorary doctorate and Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award.
Stephen Rea’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
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Stephen Rea’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
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Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen does not do surface. The core of Stephen is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Stephen is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Stephen needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Stephen and watch them fall for you again.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Stephen creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Stephen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Stephen runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Stephen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Deep water, no shallow end.
Stephen Rea's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 31, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Dog
Guards the gate all night.
Stephen Rea was born on October 31, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 7
Asks the better question.
Stephen Rea's birth date, October 31, 1946, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Rea's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Rea combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stephen Rea, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Stephen’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Stephen’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.7° to 1.8° orb
Stephen’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.7° to 0.9° orb
Stephen’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.9° orb
Stephen’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
Stephen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.8° orb
Stephen’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquarePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
Stephen’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 5.7° orb
Stephen’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
Stephen’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenustrineSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Stephen’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.3° to 7.2° orb
Stephen’s affections and drive act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLibra 28°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Stephen is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresAquarius 3°48′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Stephen is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosVirgo 4°10′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Stephen is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 22°34′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Stephen feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 19°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Stephen leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
- Eros square Venus 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Stephen’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Stephen is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephen Rea, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Stephen’s cards
Every card is computed from October 31, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stephen Rea, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313042, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by BackPacKer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Rea at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stephen Rea.
Quick answers about Stephen Rea’s chart
- How old is Stephen Rea?
- Stephen Rea is 79 years old, born October 31, 1946 in Belfast, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Stephen Rea?
- Stephen Rea is a Scorpio: born October 31, 1946, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
- What is Stephen Rea's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 31, 1946 birth.
- What time was Stephen Rea born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Stephen Rea's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 31, 1946 birth date.
- What is Stephen Rea's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 31, 1946 birth date.
- Where is Stephen Rea's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephen Rea's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.







