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Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden (born March 26, 1916, Montclair, United States; died 1986), was an American actor. Hayden's honours include Silver Star.

Sterling Hayden’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Sterling Hayden’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Sterling in the U.S.?

#346

US rank in 2025

~41,197

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Sterling’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Sterling, according to the stars

Core essence

Sterling leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Sterling is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Sterling wants to be loved

Sterling wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Sterling is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Sterling creates

How Sterling makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sterling creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Sterling is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sterling is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sterling leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sterling fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Sterling's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Sterling sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Sterling

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sterling

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Sterling

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sterling

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sterling

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sterling

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montclair on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Sterling Hayden's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Fire Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Sterling Hayden was born on March 26, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Sterling Hayden's birth date, March 26, 1916, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Sterling’s chart

Sterling’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Sterling Hayden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Sagittarius or 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 grinds against Moon · Square, 0.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.7° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 4° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4° orbSun in Aries · 5°42′Moon in Capricorn · 6°03′Mercury in Pisces · 18°08′18°Venus in Taurus · 19°10′19°Mars in Leo · 10°29′10°Jupiter in Aries · 10°06′10°Saturn in Cancer · 9°45′Uranus in Aquarius · 18°20′18°Neptune in Cancer · 29°56′ · retrograde29°Pluto in Cancer · 1°16′

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.

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.9° orb

    Sterling’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.2° to 0.4° orb

    Sterling’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.3° to 1.4° orb

    Sterling’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Sterling’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.8° to 1.3° orb

    Sterling’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb

    Sterling’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb

    Sterling’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 4.9° orb

    Sterling’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineMars4.3° to 5.2° orb

    Sterling’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb

    Sterling’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus7.8° to 7.9° orb

    Sterling’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Sterling’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.

  • ChironPisces 22°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Sterling absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresGemini 2°43′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Sterling feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosPisces 7°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Sterling is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaLibra 24°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Sterling is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • Black Moon LilithCancer 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Sterling guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.8°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 2.8°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 3.0°

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°).

Sterling’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. Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Sun7 pts

    disposes Mars; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. Moon4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Sterling is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Sterling’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sterling Hayden, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Sterling

Christian B. Anfinsen was born on March 26, 1916 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Sterling’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yang Fire

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Sterling Hayden, 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

Sterling’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323166, 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 Wikiwatcher1 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sterling Hayden at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Sterling Hayden.

Quick answers about Sterling Hayden’s chart

What zodiac sign was Sterling Hayden?
Sterling Hayden was an Aries: born March 26, 1916, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
What was Sterling Hayden's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1916 birth.
What time was Sterling Hayden 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.
How tall was Sterling Hayden?
Sterling Hayden was 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Sterling Hayden's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1916 birth date.
What was Sterling Hayden's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1916 birth date.
Where was Sterling Hayden's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Sterling Hayden's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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