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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sterling
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
Of the names registered in 1916, Sterling came 391st, carried by 202 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sterling’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sterling’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1916, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Sterling apart
The working life starts in 1941, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as prostate cancer.
On the family side, Sterling Hayden was married Madeleine Carroll.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Sterling Hayden: People from Dexter, Maine, Communists from California and Male actors from Montclair, New Jersey.
The same date carries Christian B. Anfinsen. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Working from
- 1941
- Cause of death
- prostate cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
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. Working below.
Where Sterling sits
Six lines
Sterling’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Sterling Hayden
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montclair on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Montclair that night
Computed for 40.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Montclair at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 46% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Montclair, United States
The death is recorded at Sausalito, Marin County in 1986.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sterling Hayden: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sterling's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts 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.
What Aries means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Sterling Hayden was born on March 26, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Sterling Hayden's birth date, March 26, 1916, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sterling’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sterling Hayden's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sterling Hayden combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Sterling’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus7.8° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 22°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 2°43′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 7°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 24°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.8°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 3.0°
Sterling’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars; 6 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Sterling’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Sterling
Christian B. Anfinsen was born on March 26, 1916 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Montclair sits at 40.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Sterling
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Born in United States
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More charts like Sterling’s
Fellow Aries suns
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Born in Dragon years
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- Michael CeraCanadian actor
Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
- Guccio Gucci1881
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Carrie CoonAmerican actress
- Stephen CollettiAmerican actor
- Tyler CameronAmerican television personality and model
Other Aries Dragon charts
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- Milly AlcockAustralian actress (born 2000)
- David HoggAmerican politician and activist (born 2000)
- James CaanAmerican actor
Other Tidal Strategists
- Sam MustipherAmerican football center
- Stetson BennettAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Puka NacuaAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Ji'Ayir BrownAmerican football player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Rupert MurdochAmerican businessman
- Abiy AhmedPrime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
- Tobey MaguireAmerican actor and film producer
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Sterling’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sterling’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323166 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Sterling Hayden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
