Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen (born October 20, 1958, Watertown, United States), aged 68, 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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Viggo
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 1913
2025
its peak year
US records hold Viggo from 1913 onward, though not for 1958 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2025 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Viggo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on V (4) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Viggo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1958, 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 Viggo apart
Kamala Harris (1964) and Elfriede Jelinek (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States and Kingdom of Denmark
- Languages
- French, Italian and Spanish
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. Working below.
Where Viggo sits
Six lines
Viggo’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 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.
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 Viggo Mortensen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Watertown 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 Watertown that night
Computed for 43.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Watertown at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.1° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 44.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Watertown at all: they sit past the −46.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 65% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Watertown, United States
- Lives in
- New York City · Copenhagen
Wikidata records New York City and Copenhagen as Viggo Mortensen'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 Viggo Mortensen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Viggo's chart is
Chart pattern score
19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aquarius 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
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
stableMarssquarePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.4° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.4° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune7.0° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°41′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 9°43′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 15°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
Viggo’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Viggo’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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.0°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.5°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on October 20
- Kamala Harris1964
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Snoop Dogg1971
- John Krasinski1979
- Dannii Minogue1971
- Candice Swanepoel1988
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Yasir AbdullahAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Derrick HenryAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Justice HillAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Libra Dog charts
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- Soon-Yi Previnwife of Woody Allen
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Other Gilded Strategists
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- Sunisa LeeAmerican artistic gymnast
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Charles Howard McIlwainAmerican constitutional historian
- George S. KaufmanAmerican writer
- Wesley MorrisAmerican journalist
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Viggo’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Viggo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171363 (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 Joost Pauwels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Viggo Mortensen 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 Viggo Mortensen.
Quick answers about Viggo Mortensen’s chart
- How old is Viggo Mortensen?
- Viggo Mortensen is 68 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.
- 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 is Viggo Mortensen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Viggo Mortensen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
