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Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, United States, 18:16), aged 79, is an American filmmaker. Notable films include Schindler's List, Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Steven Spielberg’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Steven Spielberg’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

In 1946, 8,878 American boys and 22 girls were registered Steven — 28th among boys and 2,016th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steven’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

2

Soul Urge · closeness

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

Steven’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, 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 BAFTA Award for Best Film came in 1993, when Steven Spielberg was 47.

Study took Steven Spielberg to Saratoga High School and Arcadia High School.

Steven Spielberg was 23 when the work began in 1969.

On the family side, Steven Spielberg was born to Arnold Spielberg, married Kate Capshaw and Amy Irving and raised 5 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read American video game developers, Akira Kurosawa Award winners and AFI Life Achievement Award recipients.

Brad Pitt (1963) and Christina Aguilera (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Saratoga High School, Arcadia High School and California State University, Long Beach
Awards
Academy Award for Best Director (1999), Academy Award for Best Picture (1994) and BAFTA Award for Best Film (1993)
Nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Director
Working from
1969
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
171

What the chart says

Steven, according to the stars

Core essence

Steven is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Steven is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Steven feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Steven needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Steven creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Steven is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Steven is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Steven 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 Steven's birth date. Working below.

Where Steven sits

Six lines

Steven’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Steven

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steven

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Steven

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steven

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

PracticalVisionary
Steven

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steven

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Steven Spielberg

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cincinnati on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Cincinnati at 18:16, Steven Spielberg’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Cincinnati that night

Computed for 39.10°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Cincinnati at the birth hour: Scheat of Pegasus, within 12.4° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.

Cincinnati sits at 39.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cincinnati on any night.

Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.

What Steven's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 卯.

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 5/1

Splenic authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 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.

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Steven Spielberg at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Steven Spielberg's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Steven Spielberg's birth date, December 18, 1946, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Steven’s chart

Steven’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.3° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.7° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 26°27′ · house 6☉26°Moon in Scorpio · 6°51′ · house 5☽6°Mercury in Sagittarius · 7°48′ · house 6☿7°Venus in Scorpio · 19°15′ · house 5♀19°Mars in Capricorn · 1°09′ · house 7♂1°Jupiter in Scorpio · 17°56′ · house 5♃17°Saturn in Leo · 8°09′ · house 2 · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Gemini · 19°29′ · house 12 · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Libra · 10°38′ · house 4♆10°Pluto in Leo · 13°07′ · house 2 · retrograde♇℞13°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 10°42′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 10°42′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 20°41′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 20°41′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 0.4° orb

    Steven’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 1.3° orb

    Steven’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 1.3° orb

    Steven’s affections and growth act as one.

  • SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.7° orb

  • JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 4.8° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.0° orb

  • MercurytrinePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb

  • VenussquarePlutoseparating · 6.1° orb

  • MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 6.3° orb

  • SunoppositionUranusseparating · 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 4°55′ · House 5

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 17°23′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 18°29′ · House 4

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 18°39′ · House 10

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°18′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Moon 1.9°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.9°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.1°

Steven’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Venus, Jupiter; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Steven’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Moon, Venus, JupiterThree 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.

  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
  • Moon semi-sextile Mercury 1.0°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.6°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

Steven’s houses

Steven’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Sagittarius, house 6Saturn, Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Sagittarius, house 6emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 5Neptunehome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 2Moon, Venus, Jupitercreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 5Sun, Mercurywork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 2Marspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Gemini, house 12emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 4emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Capricorn, house 7emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 5emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Sagittarius, house 6Uranusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Steven’s family here

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Steven’s cards

Computed from December 18, 1946. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steven’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8877 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steven Spielberg at Wikipedia, amblin.com, 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 Steven Spielberg.

Quick answers about Steven Spielberg’s chart

How old is Steven Spielberg?
Steven Spielberg is 79 years old, born December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, United States.
What zodiac sign is Steven Spielberg?
Steven Spielberg is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1946, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What is Steven Spielberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1946 birth.
What time was Steven Spielberg born?
18:16 local time in Cincinnati, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Steven Spielberg's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 18:16 birth time in Cincinnati, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Steven Spielberg?
Steven Spielberg is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Steven Spielberg's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Steven Spielberg's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 4°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Steven Spielberg's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Steven Spielberg's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Venus, Jupiter; 6 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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