Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer (born Steven Anthony Ballmer; March 24, 1956, Detroit, United States), aged 70, is an American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft. Ballmer has served as chief executive officer. Ballmer's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Steve Ballmer’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Steve
Steve Ballmer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Steve in the U.S.?
#1617
US rank in 2025
~242,131
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
The SSA recorded 6,472 American boys and 25 girls named Steve in 1956: 59th among boys and 2,239th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steve’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Steven Anthony Ballmer, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
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 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 Steve apart
The schooling ran through Lawrence Technological University and Detroit Country Day School.
Wikipedia files Steve Ballmer under Jewish American sports executives and administrators, Directors of Microsoft and Los Angeles Clippers owners.
Jessica Chastain (1977) and Jim Parsons (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lawrence Technological University, Detroit Country Day School and Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Steve, according to the stars
Core essence
Steve 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 Steve 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, Steve is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Steve needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Steve wants to be loved
Steve 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 Steve is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Steve creates
How Steve makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Steve creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Steve is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Steve is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Steve does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Steve's birth date. Working below.
Where Steve sits
Six lines
Steve’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Steve Ballmer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 83.6° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Detroit sits at 42.3°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 Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Steven Anthony Ballmer
- Known as
- Steve Ballmer
- Born in
- Detroit, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Steve Ballmer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Steve's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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 →Steve Ballmer at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Steve Ballmer's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Steve Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Steve Ballmer's birth date, March 24, 1956, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Steve’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Steve Ballmer's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Steve Ballmer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Steve’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Virgo 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.8° to 1.9° orb
Steve’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.4° orb
Steve’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineMars2.3° to 2.7° orb
Steve’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.4° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.1° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.3° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 13°25′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°03′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°03′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.8°
Steve’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Steve’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
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More charts like Steve’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioFrench writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)
Born in Monkey years
- Irad Ortiz Jr.jockey
- Flavien PratFrench jockey
- Patrick CantlayAmerican professional golfer
Also born on March 24
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Jim Parsons1973
- Alyson Hannigan1974
- Yanis Varoufakis1961
- Shakib Al Hasan1987
- Nathalia Dill1986
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Katherine HeiglAmerican actress
- Sienna MillerBritish-American actress
- Wiz KhalifaAmerican rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
Other Aries Monkey charts
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
- Lucy LawlessNew Zealand actress
- Charlie HunnamBritish actor
- Damon AlbarnBritish musician
Other Gilded Diplomats
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- Oliver TreeAmerican singer, record producer, and comedian
- Mollie O'CallaghanAustralian swimmer
- Germán GarmendiaChilean YouTuber, comedian, and writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Katy PerryAmerican singer
- Christina AguileraAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Robert KochGerman physician, bacteriologist
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Steve’s cards
Computed from March 24, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181162 (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 Martin Olsson (username 'mnemo' on en/sv wikipedia and commons, martin@minimum.se)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Steve Ballmer at Wikipedia, ballmergroup.org, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Ballmer.
Quick answers about Steve Ballmer’s chart
- How old is Steve Ballmer?
- Steve Ballmer is 70 years old, born March 24, 1956 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Steve Ballmer?
- Steve Ballmer is an Aries: born March 24, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Steve Ballmer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1956 birth.
- What is Steve Ballmer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Steve Ballmer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Steve Ballmer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Steve Ballmer's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
