Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin (born Stephen Robert Irwin; February 22, 1962, Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia, 01:00; died 2006), was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality. Irwin is best remembered for The Crocodile Hunter. Irwin's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Queensland Australian of the Year award.
Steve Irwin’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Steve
Steve Irwin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, 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 9,154 American boys and 24 girls named Steve in 1962: 46th among boys and 2,529th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steve’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Stephen Robert Irwin, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
33 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 record Steve Irwin is measured by: The Crocodile Hunter.
Steve Irwin was 29 when the work began in 1991.
The record gives exsanguination as the cause, and Australia Zoo as the resting place.
On the family side, Steve Irwin was born to Lyn Irwin and Bob Irwin, married Terri Irwin and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Steve Irwin under Australian television show creators, Zoo owners and Discovery Channel people.
Gilbert King shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The Crocodile Hunter
- Awards
- Queensland Australian of the Year award (2004)
- Working from
- 1991
- Cause of death
- exsanguination
- Buried at
- Australia Zoo
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 87
What the chart says
Steve, according to the stars
Core essence
Steve feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Steve is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 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 Steve, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Steve creates
How Steve makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Steve creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Steve is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Steve is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Steve goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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Read from the sky above Upper Ferntree Gully at 01:00, Steve Irwin’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Upper Ferntree Gully that night
Computed for 37.90°S, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Upper Ferntree Gully at the birth hour: Suhail of Vela, within 19.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 37.9°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Stephen Robert Irwin
- Known as
- Steve Irwin
- Born in
- Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia
The death is recorded at Batt Reef, Shire of Douglas in 2006.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Steve's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Minister 天相 in 丑
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Steve Irwin's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What Pisces means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Steve Irwin was born on February 22, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Serves first, rests never.
Steve Irwin's birth date, February 22, 1962, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in Steve’s chart
- The Ascendant is Capricorn, from the documented birth time, with no planet in the four angular houses.
- The tightest major aspect in Steve Irwin's timed chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Steve Irwin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Steve’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusoppositionPlutoapplying · 0.4° orb
Steve’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 1.9° orb
Steve’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercuryconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.3° orb
Steve’s mind and discipline act as one.
SunoppositionUranusseparating · 4.2° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.9° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 5.5° orb
JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 5.7° orb
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 6.1° orb
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 7.3° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°06′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°25′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 7°57′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 4°23′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°53′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.2°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.9°
Steve’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Steve’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 1.9°
- Moon quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Steve’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 8 | Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 11 | Sun, Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 9 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 3 | Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 2 | Moon, Pluto | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 9 | Neptune | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Steve Irwin also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Steve
Gilbert King was born on February 22, 1962 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 37.9°S, Upper Ferntree Gully keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Pisces suns
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on February 22
- George Washington1732
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- André PrevinGerman-American conductor, pianist, and composer
- Jerome RobbinsAmerican choreographer and director
Other Pisces Tiger charts
- Marcel TellesBrazilian entrepreneur
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- John SteinbeckAmerican writer
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Other Gilded Healers
- Steven TylerAmerican singer
- Vanna WhiteAmerican model and game show hostess
- George HamiltonAmerican film and television actor
- Gilbert KingAmerican journalist, writer and photographer
Other Capricorn risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 33
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
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From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Steve’s cards
Computed from February 22, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q126513 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Richard Giles, aka User rich115 on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Steve Irwin at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Irwin.
Quick answers about Steve Irwin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Steve Irwin?
- Steve Irwin was a Pisces: born February 22, 1962, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
- What was Steve Irwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 22, 1962 birth.
- What time was Steve Irwin born?
- 01:00 local time in Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Steve Irwin's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 01:00 birth time in Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Steve Irwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What was Steve Irwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Steve Irwin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 12°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Steve Irwin's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
