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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Steven
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
The SSA recorded 32,275 American boys and 75 girls named Steven in 1961: 10th among boys and 1,286th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steven’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Steven’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Steven apart
The record Steven Moffat is measured by: Strax.
Study took Steven Moffat to University of Glasgow.
Steven Moffat was 27 when the work began in 1988.
The family line: married Sue Vertue.
Rick Owens and Andrew Forrest shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Strax
- Educated at
- University of Glasgow
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2007) and British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series (2011)
- Nominated for
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
- Working from
- 1988
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 39
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. Working below.
Where Steven sits
Six lines
Steven’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Steven Moffat
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paisley 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 Paisley that night
Computed for 55.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Paisley at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 0.9° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 55.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 85% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Steven's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts 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.
What Scorpio means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Steven Moffat was born on November 18, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Steven Moffat's birth date, November 18, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Steven’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Steven Moffat's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Steven Moffat combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Steven’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableMarssextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°54′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 18°24′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 25°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Steven’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Steven’s chart
Stellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.6°
Born the same day as Steven
2 other people here were born on November 18, 1961, 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 55.8°N, Paisley keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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- Stanley KarnowAmerican historian and journalist
Also born on November 18
- Margaret Atwood1939
- Chloë Sevigny1974
- Megyn Kelly1970
- Rick Owens1961
- Andrew Forrest1961
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- Chidobe AwuzieAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Trey HendricksonAmerican football player (born 1994)
Other Scorpio Ox charts
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- Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Elsa SchiaparelliItalian fashion designer and couturier
- Gianni AgnelliItalian businessman; grandson of FIAT's founder
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Famous people with Life Path 1
- Wallace StevensAmerican poet
- Leonard D. WhiteAmerican historian
- Frank LoesserAmerican songwriter
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Steven’s cards
Computed from November 18, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steven’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q461003 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Steven Moffat's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Steven Moffat's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
