Walter Hill
Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942, Long Beach, United States), aged 84, is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Hill's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Miniseries and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Walter Hill’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Walter Hill’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Walter is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Walter be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Walter 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: Walter is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Walter is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Walter gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Walter's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Walter sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Walter Hill in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Walter Hill's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Walter Hill was born on January 10, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Walter Hill's birth date, January 10, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Hill's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Walter Hill combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Walter Hill, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.6° to 0.8° orb
Walter’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
Walter’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.3° to 2.9° orb
Walter’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurysquareMars1.9° to 3.1° orb
Walter’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.8° orb
Walter’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
Walter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineUranus4.5° to 6.2° orb
Walter’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
Walter’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto5.2° to 5.8° orb
Walter’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
Walter’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Walter’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 ℞Leo 12°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Walter performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Walter is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°27′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Walter attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Walter is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Walter that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.9°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 3.0°
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°).
Walter’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Walter is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Walter’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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Hill, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Walter’s cards
Every card is computed from January 10, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Walter Hill, 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
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q350422, 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 Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Hill at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Walter Hill’s chart
- How old is Walter Hill?
- Walter Hill is 84 years old, born January 10, 1942 in Long Beach, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Walter Hill?
- Walter Hill is a Capricorn: born January 10, 1942, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Walter Hill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1942 birth.
- What time was Walter Hill 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 Walter Hill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 10, 1942 birth date.
- What is Walter Hill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 10, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Walter Hill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Walter Hill's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
