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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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Sterling K. Brown in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

First 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. 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

Confident before the proof.

Sterling K. Brown was born on April 5, 1976, 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 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Sterling K. Brown's birth date, April 5, 1976, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Sterling’s chart

Sterling’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Sterling K. Brown, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.7° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1.8° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.3° orbSun in Aries · 16°05′☉16°Moon in Gemini · 22°10′☽22°Mercury in Aries · 20°23′☿20°Venus in Pisces · 26°46′♀26°Mars in Cancer · 8°29′♂8°Jupiter in Taurus · 2°24′♃2°Saturn in Cancer · 26°06′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°56′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°51′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Libra · 10°11′ · retrograde♇℞10°

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.4° to 3.7° orb

    Sterling’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.8° to 4.9° orb

    Sterling’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.7° to 6.7° orb

    Sterling’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.4° orb

    Sterling’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb

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

  • 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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Sterling may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 17°13′ (moves 0.34° 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 27°44′ (moves 0.65° 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.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 1°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Sterling is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Sterling carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • 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°

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. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

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.

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

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Sterling’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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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: 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

No birth time is on public record for Sterling K. Brown, 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 Q3295000, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sterling K. Brown at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
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 time was Sterling K. Brown 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 Sterling K. Brown's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1976 birth date.
What is Sterling K. Brown's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1976 birth date.
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.

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