Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton; November 4, 1960, London, United Kingdom), aged 66, is a Scottish-British actress. Notable films include Avengers: Endgame, Doctor Strange and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Swinton's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and European Film Award for Best Actress.
Tilda Swinton’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Tilda
Tilda Swinton’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Tilda in the U.S.?
#6806
US rank in 2025
~2,040
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
The SSA recorded 12 American girls named Tilda in 1960: 3,903rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tilda’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Katherine Matilda Swinton, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on K (2) 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
Tilda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 3
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 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Tilda apart
The Volpi Cup for Best Actress came in 1992, when Tilda Swinton was 32.
Tilda Swinton was taught at West Heath Girls' School and Queen's Gate School.
Tilda Swinton was 24 when the work began in 1984.
The family line: born to Judith Balfour Killen and John Swinton and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Tilda Swinton under People from Berwickshire, British queer actresses and Alumni of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
Kathy Griffin shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- West Heath Girls' School, Queen's Gate School and Fettes College
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (2008), BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (2008) and Saturn Award for Best Actress (2017)
- Nominated for
- Saturn Award for Best Actress and European Film Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1984
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
What the chart says
Tilda, according to the stars
Core essence
Tilda does not do surface. The core of Tilda 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 Tilda is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Tilda wants to be loved
Tilda wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Tilda and watch them fall for you again.
How Tilda creates
How Tilda 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. Tilda 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: Tilda 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 22 is the master builder. Tilda is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Tilda does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Tilda's birth date. Working below.
Where Tilda sits
Six lines
Tilda’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Tilda Swinton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Caph stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.5°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 −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Katherine Matilda Swinton
- Known as
- Tilda Swinton
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Nairn
Wikidata records Nairn as Tilda Swinton's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Tilda Swinton: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Tilda's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Uranus · A bowl chart
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 →Tilda Swinton at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Tilda Swinton's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Tilda Swinton was born on November 4, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Tilda Swinton's birth date, November 4, 1960, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Tilda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tilda Swinton's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury 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.
- Tilda Swinton combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Tilda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSunsextileSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
Tilda’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Tilda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars1.7° to 3.1° orb
Tilda’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.5° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Tilda’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 27°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 17°34′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 16°43′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 20°60′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.9°
- Eros square Mercury 2.6°
Tilda’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Tilda’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.5°
Born the same day as Tilda
Kathy Griffin was born on November 4, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From London, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Tilda
Other screenwriters
- James Schamus1959
- Tom Ford1961
- Bradley Whitford1959
- Laurence Fishburne1961
- Norm Macdonald1959
- Ifor ap Glyn1961
Born in United Kingdom
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- Julia GillardPrime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
- Emma ThompsonEnglish actress and screenwriter
- Janet McTeerBritish actress
- MorrisseyBritish singer and songwriter
- Ifor ap GlynWelsh poet and television producer/presenter
More charts like Tilda’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Mia WasikowskaAustralian actress
- Chloë SevignyAmerican actress
- Gordon RamsayBritish chef, restaurateur, and television personality
Born in Rat years
- Blake BrandelAmerican football offensive tackle
- James PierreAmerican football cornerback
- Drew LockAmerican football player (born 1996)
Also born on November 4
- Matthew McConaughey1969
- Tony Abbott1957
- Achraf Hakimi1998
- Sean Combs1969
- Ralph Macchio1961
- Yiyun Li1972
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Armand DuplantisSwedish-American pole vaulter
- Matthijs de LigtDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Mark LeeSouth Korean-Canadian rapper and singer
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Christian KirkAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Ben PowersAmerican football player (born 1996)
- MomoJapanese singer
- JeongyeonSouth Korean singer
Other Radiant Architects
- Ed WestwickEnglish actor and musician
- Thierry HenryFrench association football player and manager (born 1977)
- Bruno FernandesPortuguese association football player (born 1994)
- Andrea EckertAustrian actress
Famous people with Life Path 22
- PedriSpanish association football player
- Mark WebberAustralian professional racing driver
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Tilda’s cards
Computed from November 4, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tilda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200534 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tilda Swinton at Wikipedia, 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 Tilda Swinton.
Quick answers about Tilda Swinton’s chart
- How old is Tilda Swinton?
- Tilda Swinton is 66 years old, born November 4, 1960 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Tilda Swinton?
- Tilda Swinton is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Tilda Swinton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1960 birth.
- How tall is Tilda Swinton?
- Tilda Swinton is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tilda Swinton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tilda Swinton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tilda Swinton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tilda Swinton's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
