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Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat (born November 18, 1961, Paisley, United Kingdom), aged 64, is a Scottish television writer and producer. Moffat is best known for Strax. Moffat's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form and British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series.

Steven Moffat’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Steven Moffat’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Steven in the U.S.?

#271

US rank in 2025

~1,297,590

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Steven’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Steven, according to the stars

Core essence

Steven does not do surface. The core of Steven is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Steven is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Steven wants to be loved

Steven wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Steven even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Steven creates

How Steven makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Steven creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Steven is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Steven is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Steven leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Steven has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Steven's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Steven sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Steven

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steven

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Steven

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steven

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Steven

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steven

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Steven Moffat's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Steven Moffat was born on November 18, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Steven Moffat's birth date, November 18, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Steven’s chart

Steven’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Steven Moffat, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 25°55′25°Moon in Aries · 5°13′Mercury in Scorpio · 10°38′10°Venus in Scorpio · 9°06′Mars in Sagittarius · 3°18′Jupiter in Aquarius · 2°02′Saturn in Capricorn · 25°22′25°Uranus in Virgo · 0°24′Neptune in Scorpio · 11°36′11°Pluto in Virgo · 9°59′

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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Conjunction
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.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.1° to 1.0° orb

    Steven’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 1.7° orb

    Steven’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Steven’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb

    Steven’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.7° orb

    Steven’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb

    Steven’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb

    Steven’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb

    Steven’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb

    Steven’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb

    Steven’s core identity and drive act as one.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Steven’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.

  • ChironPisces 1°54′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Steven absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresTaurus 18°24′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Steven is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ErosCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Steven is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaSagittarius 25°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Steven is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Steven exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Venus 2.7°

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°).

Steven’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. Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Steven is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Steven’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.6°

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

Born the same day as Steven

2 other people here were born on November 18, 1961, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Steven’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Steven Moffat, 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

Steven’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q461003, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steven Moffat at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Steven Moffat.

Quick answers about Steven Moffat’s chart

How old is Steven Moffat?
Steven Moffat is 64 years old, born November 18, 1961 in Paisley, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Steven Moffat?
Steven Moffat is a Scorpio: born November 18, 1961, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
What is Steven Moffat's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1961 birth.
What time was Steven Moffat 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 Steven Moffat's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 18, 1961 birth date.
What is Steven Moffat's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 18, 1961 birth date.
Where is Steven Moffat's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Steven Moffat's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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