Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier (born April 15, 1960, Copenhagen, Denmark), aged 66, is a Danish film director (born 1960). Bier's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
Susanne Bier’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Susanne
Susanne Bier’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Susanne in the U.S.?
#11815
US rank in 2025
~26,094
Americans share it since 1881
1949
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1960, Susanne came 405th, carried by 560 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Susanne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
Susanne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Susanne apart
Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Susanne, according to the stars
Core essence
Susanne 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 Susanne 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Susanne is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Susanne needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Susanne wants to be loved
Susanne 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 Susanne creates
How Susanne makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Susanne 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: Susanne is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Susanne is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Susanne 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 Susanne's birth date. Working below.
Where Susanne sits
Six lines
Susanne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Susanne Bier
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Copenhagen 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 Copenhagen that night
Computed for 55.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Copenhagen at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Copenhagen sits at 55.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 79% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
How unusual Susanne's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Susanne Bier's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Susanne Bier was born on April 15, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Susanne Bier's birth date, April 15, 1960, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Susanne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Susanne Bier's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Susanne Bier combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Susanne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Sagittarius 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
stableJupitertrinePluto0.2° orb
Susanne’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 2.5° orb
Susanne’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.2° to 4.4° orb
Susanne’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto6.0° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.1° to 17.7° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 4.4° to 18.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Susanne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°04′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 17°52′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 18°15′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 17°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 27°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.7°
Susanne’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Susanne’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
More people like Susanne
Other screenwriters
- Daryl Hannah1960
- James Schamus1959
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Tom Arnold1959
- Neil Gaiman1960
- Norm Macdonald1959
Born in Denmark
- Josephine SkriverDanish model (born 1993)
- Victor BorgeDanish comedian and pianist
- Connie NielsenDanish actress (born 1965)
- Johannes V. JensenDanish author
- Caroline WozniackiDanish tennis player
- Aage BohrDanish physicist
More charts like Susanne’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Paul ReiserAmerican actor
- Giorgio CantariniItalian actor
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
Born in Rat years
- Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de ConstantFrench politician
- Alfred Hermann FriedAustrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Randal CremerEnglish politician
Also born on April 15
- Emma Watson1990
- Tomas Tranströmer1931
- Emma Thompson1959
- Seth Rogen1982
- Jordan Chiles2001
- James Middleton1987
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Gabrielle UnionAmerican actress, singer and model
- Mike TindallEnglish rugby union player
- Jamie-Lynn SiglerAmerican actress (born 1981)
Other Aries Rat charts
- Abigail BreslinAmerican actress
- Jennifer GreyAmerican actress
- Jennie GarthAmerican actress
- Karla Sofía GascónSpanish actress
Other Tidal Strategists
- Daniel RicciardoAustralian racing driver
- Jennifer CoolidgeAmerican actress
- PitbullAmerican rapper
- Michelle TrachtenbergAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Idina MenzelAmerican actress and singer
- Dylan McDermottAmerican actor
- Jason MrazAmerican singer-songwriter
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Susanne’s cards
Computed from April 15, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Susanne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q236148 (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 Les Kaner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Susanne Bier at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Susanne Bier.
Quick answers about Susanne Bier’s chart
- How old is Susanne Bier?
- Susanne Bier is 66 years old, born April 15, 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- What zodiac sign is Susanne Bier?
- Susanne Bier is an Aries: born April 15, 1960, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Susanne Bier's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1960 birth.
- What is Susanne Bier's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Susanne Bier's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Susanne Bier's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Susanne Bier's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
