Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg (born September 29, 1931, Malmö, Sweden; died 2015), was a Swedish actress. Ekberg's honours include Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.
Anita Ekberg’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Anita
Anita Ekberg’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Anita in the U.S.?
#1342
US rank in 2025
~215,849
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Anita ranked 117th among girls and 2,212th among boys in 1931, the year of this birth, with 2,080 American girls and 12 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anita’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Anita apart
Anita Ekberg took the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress in 1956, at 25.
Training came by way of Malmö Borgarskola.
The working life starts in 1953, at 22.
Cause of death is recorded as disease; the grave is at Skanör old cemetery.
Anita Ekberg was born to Gustav Fredrik Ekberg and married Anthony Steel and Rik Van Nutter.
Wikipedia's editors put Anita Ekberg under Swedish emigrants to Italy, Actresses from Malmö and Spaghetti Western actresses.
The same date carries James Cronin. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Malmö Borgarskola
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress (1956)
- Working from
- 1953
- Cause of death
- disease
- Buried at
- Skanör old cemetery
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- Italian, English and Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Anita, according to the stars
Core essence
Anita makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Anita 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.
How Anita wants to be loved
Anita wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Anita gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Anita creates
How Anita makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Anita creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Anita is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Anita is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Anita runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Anita's birth date. Working below.
Where Anita sits
Six lines
Anita’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Anita Ekberg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Malmö 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 Malmö that night
Computed for 55.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Malmö at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 95 catalog stars were up in all.
At 55.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Malmö, Sweden
The death is recorded at Rocca di Papa, Metropolitan City of Rome in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anita Ekberg: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Anita's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Anita Ekberg's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Anita Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Anita Ekberg's birth date, September 29, 1931, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Anita’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anita Ekberg's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Anita Ekberg combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Anita’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.4° to 2.0° orb
Anita’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
Anita’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.2° orb
Anita’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.3° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.0° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus6.2° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Anita’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 9°31′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°03′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°14′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.2°
- Eros square Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.9°
Anita’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Anita’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.3°
Born the same day as Anita
James Cronin was born on September 29, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Malmö, at 55.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Anita
Other actors
- Mike Nichols1931
- Adriana Asti1931
- Miriam Makeba1932
- James Earl Jones1931
- Marisa Pavan1932
- Leslie Caron1931
Born in Sweden
- Bibi AnderssonSwedish actress
- Halvar BjörkSwedish actor
- Stefan Perssonbusiness magnate
- Kai SiegbahnSwedish physicist
- Carl BennetSwedish businessman, chairman of Getinge and Lifco
- Max von SydowSwedish-French actor
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on September 29
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- Jack CardiffBritish cinematographer, director and photographer
Other Libra Goat charts
- Otto Heinrich WarburgGerman physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
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- Alexander ToddBritish biochemist and Nobel laureate
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Gavin RossdaleBritish musician
- Ann Romneywife of Mitt Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts
- Patrick StewartBritish actor (born 1940)
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Marco PašalićCroatian-German association football player
- Azzedine OunahiMoroccan association football player
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Anita’s cards
Computed from September 29, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230662 (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 Paramount-photo by Bud Frakes., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anita Ekberg 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 Anita Ekberg.
Quick answers about Anita Ekberg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anita Ekberg?
- Anita Ekberg was a Libra: born September 29, 1931, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Anita Ekberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1931 birth.
- What was Anita Ekberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anita Ekberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anita Ekberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anita Ekberg's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
