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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Walter
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
In 1942, 8,682 American boys and 45 girls were registered Walter — 26th among boys and 1,194th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Walter apart
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1987, when Walter Hill was 45.
The schooling ran through Michigan State University.
Walter Hill was 26 when the work began in 1968.
Walter Hill was married Hildy Gottlieb.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Long Beach, California, Western (genre) film directors and American graphic novelists.
Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Michigan State University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1987), Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, Drama Series (2004) and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, Television Film (2006)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
- Working from
- 1968
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 33
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. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’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 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.
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 Walter Hill
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Long Beach 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 Long Beach that night
Computed for 33.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Long Beach was Menkib, in Perseus, 83.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Long Beach sits at 33.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 40% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · Five planets retrograde
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.
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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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.5° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.2° to 5.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°27′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Walter’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Walter’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Walter’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q350422 (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 Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Hill at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Hill.
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.
- 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 is Walter Hill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Walter Hill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
