Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames (born May 12, 1959, New York City, United States), aged 67, is an American actor. Rhames's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
Ving Rhames’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Ving Rhames’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
Ving’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ving, according to the stars
Core essence
Ving is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Ving is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Ving is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Ving needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Ving wants to be loved
Ving wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Ving gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ving creates
How Ving makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Ving builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Ving is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ving 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ving 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 Ving's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ving sits
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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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Ving Rhames's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Ving Rhames was born on May 12, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Ving Rhames's birth date, May 12, 1959, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ving’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ving Rhames' date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Ving Rhames combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Ving’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ving Rhames, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Cancer 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.
stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb
Ving’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.1° to 2.7° orb
Ving’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb
Ving’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 2.8° orb
Ving’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.3° to 3.5° orb
Ving’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars2.5° to 2.9° orb
Ving’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
Ving’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.8° orb
Ving’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquarePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Ving’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.6° to 6.2° orb
Ving’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
Ving’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.2° to 7.3° orb
Ving’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Ving’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°27′ (moves 0.02° 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 Ving making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 21°18′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ving is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 26°35′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Ving is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 28°45′ (moves 0.30° 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 Ving needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 19°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ving is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Ceres opposition Sun 0.1°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.9°
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°).
Ving’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, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ving 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 Ving’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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ving Rhames, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ving’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1959, 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 Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ving Rhames, 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
Ving’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310315, 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 Chris Yarzab, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ving Rhames 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 Ving Rhames’s chart
- How old is Ving Rhames?
- Ving Rhames is 67 years old, born May 12, 1959 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ving Rhames?
- Ving Rhames is a Taurus: born May 12, 1959, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Ving Rhames's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1959 birth.
- What time was Ving Rhames 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 Ving Rhames's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1959 birth date.
- What is Ving Rhames's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Ving Rhames's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ving Rhames's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
