Sterling K. Brown
Sterling K. Brown (born April 5, 1976, St. Louis, United States), aged 50, is an American actor. Notable films include Black Panther, The Mentalist and Castle. Brown's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
Sterling K. Brown’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Sterling
Sterling K. Brown’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 189 American boys and 7 girls named Sterling in 1976: 593rd among boys and 8,008th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sterling’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
11
Soul Urge · insight
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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 1976, 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
Pharrell Williams (1973) and Lily James (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Sterling processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sterling needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Sterling wants to be loved
Sterling wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Sterling, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Sterling creates
How Sterling makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Sterling creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 5 is the free spirit. Sterling is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sterling does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 K. Brown
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at St. Louis was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
St. Louis sits at 38.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from St. Louis at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 33% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- St. Louis, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Sterling K. Brown's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sterling K. Brown: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Sterling K. Brown's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Sterling K. Brown was born on April 5, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Sterling K. Brown's birth date, April 5, 1976, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Sterling’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sterling K. Brown's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sterling K. Brown combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Sterling’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini 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
stableVenustrineSaturn0.1° to 1.3° orb
Sterling’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto1.4° to 2.0° orb
Sterling’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb
Sterling’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineUranus2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.7° to 6.7° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironAries 26°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 17°13′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 27°44′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 3.0°
Sterling’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Sterling’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
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More charts like Sterling’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Alessio FigalliItalian mathematician (1984–)
- Horst Ludwig StörmerGerman physicist
- Christian B. AnfinsenAmerican biochemist
Born in Dragon years
- Peter Matthew Hillsman TaylorAmerican writer
- Anna QuindlenAmerican journalist and novelist (born 1952)
- Evan Osnosjournalist
Also born on April 5
- Pharrell Williams1973
- Lily James1989
- Gregory Peck1916
- Bette Davis1908
- Spencer Tracy1900
- Ivar Giæver1929
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Chappell RoanAmerican singer
- J. ColeAmerican rapper and record producer
- T-PainAmerican singer, songwriter, and record producer
Other Aries Dragon charts
- Maxence LacroixFrench footballer (born 2000)
- Juan Manuel SanabriaUruguayan association football player
- Josip StanišićCroatian association football player (born 2000)
- Ivor PandurCroatian association football player
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Jonathan AllenAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Avonte MaddoxAmerican football cornerback
- Alec IngoldAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Quinn EwersAmerican football player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Russell T DaviesWelsh screenwriter and television producer
- Rebecca RoanhorseAmerican speculative fiction author (1971-)
- John BrunnerBritish author
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Sterling’s cards
Computed from April 5, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sterling’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3295000 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sterling K. Brown.
Quick answers about Sterling K. Brown’s chart
- How old is Sterling K. Brown?
- Sterling K. Brown is 50 years old, born April 5, 1976 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sterling K. Brown?
- Sterling K. Brown is an Aries: born April 5, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Sterling K. Brown's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1976 birth.
- What is Sterling K. Brown's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sterling K. Brown's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sterling K. Brown's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sterling K. Brown's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
