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Zac Efron

Zac Efron (born Zachary David Alexander Efron; October 18, 1987, San Luis Obispo, United States, 13:22), aged 39, is an American actor and singer. Notable films include High School Musical, NCIS and High School Musical 2. Efron's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Zac Efron’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Zac Efron’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 Zac in the U.S.?

#3237

US rank in 2025

~1,600

Americans share it since 1957

2014

its peak year

In 1987, 12 American boys were registered Zac — 3,956th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Zac’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Zachary David Alexander Efron, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on Z (8) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Zac’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Zac apart

Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Zac, according to the stars

Core essence

Zac makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Zac 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, Zac is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Zac needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Zac wants to be loved

Zac wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Zac even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Zac creates

How Zac makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Zac 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: Zac is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Zac 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Zac fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Zac's birth date. Working below.

Where Zac sits

Six lines

Zac’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Zac

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Zac

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Zac

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Zac

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Zac

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Zac

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Zac Efron

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Luis Obispo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above San Luis Obispo at 13:22, Zac Efron’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Luis Obispo that night

Computed for 35.27°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at San Luis Obispo was Izar, in Boötes, 78.5° up.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

San Luis Obispo sits at 35.3°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 −54.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 15% lit at waning crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -44° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Zachary David Alexander Efron
Known as
Zac Efron
Born in
San Luis Obispo, United States

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What Zac's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞 in 寅

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 5/1

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

Score your own chart →

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Zac Efron's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.

What Libra means →

Fire Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Zac Efron was born on October 18, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Zac Efron's birth date, October 18, 1987, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Zac’s chart

Zac’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.3° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3° orbSun in Libra · 24°55′ · house 10☉24°Moon in Virgo · 9°42′ · house 9☽9°Mercury in Scorpio · 12°55′ · house 11 · retrograde☿℞12°Venus in Scorpio · 9°56′ · house 11♀9°Mars in Libra · 6°27′ · house 10♂6°Jupiter in Aries · 24°39′ · house 4 · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Sagittarius · 17°20′ · house 12♄17°Uranus in Sagittarius · 23°39′ · house 12♅23°Neptune in Capricorn · 5°30′ · house 1♆5°Pluto in Scorpio · 9°18′ · house 11♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 13°12′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 13°12′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 3°52′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 3°52′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonsextileVenusapplying · 0.2° orb

    Zac’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunoppositionJupiterseparating · 0.3° orb

    Zac’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 0.4° orb

    Zac’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.6° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 1.0° orb

  • JupitertrineUranusapplying · 1.0° orb

  • SunsextileUranusseparating · 1.3° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.0° orb

  • MoonsextileMercuryapplying · 3.2° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.6° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.8° orb

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 4.2° orb

  • VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 4.4° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Zac’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 28°45′ · House 6

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°21′ · House 1

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 10°44′ · House 11

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 27°49′ · House 8

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°45′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Moon 1.0°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.2°
  • Eros sextile Ascendant 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.9°

Zac’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Zac’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.

  • Moon sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Moon 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 1.1°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.4°

Zac’s houses

Zac’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 12Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 1emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Libra, house 10Jupiterhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 11emptycreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 11emptywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Virgo, house 9emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Libra, house 10emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 11Moonbelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 11Sun, Marscareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 11Mercury, Venus, Plutofriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 4Saturn, Uranusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Zac’s cards

Computed from October 18, 1987. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Zac’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q45229 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Zac Efron at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zac Efron.

Quick answers about Zac Efron’s chart

How old is Zac Efron?
Zac Efron is 39 years old, born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, United States.
What zodiac sign is Zac Efron?
Zac Efron is a Libra: born October 18, 1987, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
What is Zac Efron's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1987 birth.
What time was Zac Efron born?
13:22 local time in San Luis Obispo, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Zac Efron's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 13:22 birth time in San Luis Obispo, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Zac Efron's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Zac Efron's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 28°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Zac Efron's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Zac Efron's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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