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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

US Social Security Administration public records

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.

Where Stephen sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephen

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

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

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.8° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 5.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 7°28′Moon in Capricorn · 18°43′18°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°03′Venus in Sagittarius · 2°17′ · retrogradeMars in Scorpio · 25°31′25°Jupiter in Scorpio · 7°42′Saturn in Leo · 8°31′Uranus in Gemini · 21°20′ · retrograde21°Neptune in Libra · 9°25′Pluto in Leo · 13°19′13°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • HygieaAries 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 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. 1. Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 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, the shape it makesStellium 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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Stephen’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yang Fire

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Earth

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

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.

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