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Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett (born August 16, 1958, New York City, United States), aged 68, is an American actress (born 1958). Bassett is best known for 9-1-1, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and What's Love Got to Do with It. Bassett's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Saturn Awards.

Angela Bassett’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Angela Bassett’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Angela in the U.S.?

#408

US rank in 2025

~675,392

Americans share it since 1880

1971

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Angela’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Angela apart

The same date carries Madonna and Anne L'Huillier. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

What the chart says

Angela, according to the stars

Core essence

Angela is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Angela is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Angela 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 Angela needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Angela wants to be loved

Angela wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Angela openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Angela creates

How Angela makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Angela creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Angela 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 2 is the peacemaker. Angela is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Angela is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Angela's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Angela sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Angela

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Angela

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

PrivateExpressive
Angela

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Angela

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Angela

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Angela

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Angela Bassett

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Angela’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Angela Bassett's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 16, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Angela Bassett was born on August 16, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Angela Bassett's birth date, August 16, 1958, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Angela’s chart

Angela’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Angela Bassett, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.8° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Leo · 23°16′☉23°Moon in Virgo · 13°56′☽13°Mercury in Virgo · 5°33′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Leo · 0°44′♀0°Mars in Taurus · 15°28′♂15°Jupiter in Libra · 26°25′♃26°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°08′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Leo · 12°42′♅12°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°18′♆2°Pluto in Virgo · 1°43′♇1°

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.

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

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.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

    Angela’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.0° to 2.2° orb

    Angela’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.5° to 3.0° orb

    Angela’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.7° to 3.6° orb

    Angela’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.9° to 3.6° orb

    Angela’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.5° to 4.1° orb

    Angela’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb

    Angela’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.8° to 4.9° orb

    Angela’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb

    Angela’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus6.4° to 6.5° orb

    Angela’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Angela’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 ℞Aquarius 19°59′ (moves 0.05° 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 Angela making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 10°05′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Angela caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 6°21′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Angela is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°36′ (moves 0.23° 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 Angela needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Angela carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 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°).

Angela’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. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Angela is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Angela’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Angela Bassett, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Angela

2 other people here were born on August 16, 1958, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Angela’s cards

Every card is computed from August 16, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Angela Bassett, 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

Angela’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232120, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Angela Bassett at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Angela Bassett.

Quick answers about Angela Bassett’s chart

How old is Angela Bassett?
Angela Bassett is 68 years old, born August 16, 1958 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Angela Bassett?
Angela Bassett is a Leo: born August 16, 1958, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
What is Angela Bassett's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1958 birth.
What time was Angela Bassett 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 Angela Bassett's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 16, 1958 birth date.
What is Angela Bassett's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 16, 1958 birth date.
Where is Angela Bassett's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Angela Bassett's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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