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Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen (born March 24, 1930, Beech Grove, United States; died 1980), was an American actor. McQueen's honours include Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame, National Defense Service Medal and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Steve McQueen’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Steve McQueen’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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

Of the names registered in 1930, Steve came 169th among boys and 4,000th among girls, carried by 862 American boys and 7 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (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

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver

The record

What sets Steve apart

Jessica Chastain (1977) and Steve Ballmer (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Steve creates

How Steve makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Steve creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Steve is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Steve is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Steve slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Steve

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Steve

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Steve

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Steve McQueen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Beech Grove 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 Beech Grove that night

Computed for 39.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Beech Grove at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Beech Grove at all: they sit past the −50.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 23% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 33° down.

How unusual Steve's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Venus

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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Steve McQueen at a glance

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Steve McQueen's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Steve McQueen was born on March 24, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Steve McQueen's birth date, March 24, 1930, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.4° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.1° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.5° orbSun in Aries · 3°22′☉3°Moon in Aquarius · 1°56′☽1°Mercury in Pisces · 25°43′☿25°Venus in Aries · 14°41′♀14°Mars in Pisces · 5°52′♂5°Jupiter in Gemini · 10°35′♃10°Saturn in Capricorn · 11°15′♄11°Uranus in Aries · 10°52′♅10°Neptune in Virgo · 1°24′ · retrograde♆℞1°Pluto in Cancer · 17°27′ · retrograde♇℞17°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Steve’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.4° orb

    Steve’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.1° to 3.4° orb

    Steve’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.4° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.2° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus7.0° to 8.0° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 6.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 11°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 15°41′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 28°44′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 27°47′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.9°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 2.7°

Steve’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Steve’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Saturn, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.7°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 2.0°

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Steve’s cards

Computed from March 24, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q159347 (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 Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, freigestellt von Birkho und farblich aufgehellt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve McQueen at Wikipedia, stevemcqueen.com and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve McQueen.

Quick answers about Steve McQueen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Steve McQueen?
Steve McQueen was an Aries: born March 24, 1930, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Steve McQueen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1930 birth.
How tall was Steve McQueen?
Steve McQueen was 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Steve McQueen's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Steve McQueen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Steve McQueen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Steve McQueen's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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