Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen (born October 20, 1958, Watertown, United States), aged 67, is an American actor. Mortensen is best known for Captain Fantastic, Far from Men and Thirteen Lives. Mortensen's honours include Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Satellite Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Viggo Mortensen’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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Viggo Mortensen’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Viggo in the U.S.?
#1697
US rank in 2025
~1,055
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Viggo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Viggo, according to the stars
Core essence
Viggo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Viggo is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Viggo needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Viggo needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Viggo wants to be loved
Viggo wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Viggo gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Viggo creates
How Viggo makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Viggo creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Viggo 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Viggo 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Viggo scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Viggo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Viggo Mortensen at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Viggo Mortensen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Viggo Mortensen was born on October 20, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Viggo Mortensen's birth date, October 20, 1958, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Viggo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Viggo Mortensen's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter 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.
- Viggo Mortensen combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Viggo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Viggo Mortensen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Viggo’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb
Viggo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 2.6° orb
Viggo’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 3.4° orb
Viggo’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Viggo’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.4° to 3.9° orb
Viggo’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
Viggo’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.4° to 5.7° orb
Viggo’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb
Viggo’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune7.0° to 7.9° orb
Viggo’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Viggo’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°41′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Viggo making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 9°43′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Viggo is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 15°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Viggo is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Viggo needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Viggo carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
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°).
Viggo’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Viggo is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Viggo’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.0°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Viggo Mortensen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Viggo’s cards
Every card is computed from October 20, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Viggo Mortensen, 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
Viggo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171363, 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 Joost Pauwels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Viggo Mortensen at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Viggo Mortensen’s chart
- How old is Viggo Mortensen?
- Viggo Mortensen is 67 years old, born October 20, 1958 in Watertown, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Viggo Mortensen?
- Viggo Mortensen is a Libra: born October 20, 1958, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- What is Viggo Mortensen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1958 birth.
- What time was Viggo Mortensen 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 Viggo Mortensen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 20, 1958 birth date.
- What is Viggo Mortensen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 20, 1958 birth date.
- Where is Viggo Mortensen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Viggo Mortensen's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
