Arthur Kennedy
Arthur Kennedy (born February 17, 1914, Worcester, United States; died 1990), was an American actor. Kennedy's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Arthur Kennedy’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
Arthur Kennedy’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?
#87
US rank in 2025
~551,930
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Arthur ranked 18th among boys and 1,234th among girls in 1914, the year of this birth, with 6,641 American boys and 25 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arthur’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
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 1914, 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 Arthur apart
Arthur Kennedy took the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1949, at 35.
Training came by way of South High Community School and Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts.
The working life starts in 1940, at 26.
Cause of death is recorded as brain cancer.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Arthur Kennedy under South High Community School alumni, Male actors from Worcester, Massachusetts and Worcester Academy alumni.
The same date carries Wayne Morris. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- South High Community School, Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts and Worcester Academy
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1956) and Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1949)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- brain cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Arthur, according to the stars
Core essence
Arthur is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Arthur is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Arthur creates
How Arthur makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Arthur builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Arthur is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Arthur 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Arthur does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Arthur's birth date. Working below.
Where Arthur sits
Six lines
Arthur’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Arthur Kennedy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worcester 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 Worcester that night
Computed for 42.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Worcester at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 11.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Worcester on any night.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 43% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Worcester, United States
The death is recorded at Branford, South Central Connecticut Planning Region in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Arthur Kennedy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Arthur's chart is
Chart pattern score
67 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →Arthur Kennedy at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Arthur Kennedy's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 17, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Arthur Kennedy was born on February 17, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Arthur Kennedy's birth date, February 17, 1914, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Kennedy's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Arthur Kennedy combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Arthur’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto0.5° to 1.5° orb
Arthur’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 1.5° orb
Arthur’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.0° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 13°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°41′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°10′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°10′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Born the same day as Arthur
Wayne Morris was born on February 17, 1914 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Worcester sits at 42.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Arthur
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- Tyrone Power1914
- Henry Jones1912
- Richard Widmark1914
- Harold Russell1914
- Wendell Corey1914
Born in United States
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Fellow Aquarius suns
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- Hatcher HughesAmerican playwright
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Born in Tiger years
- Jeremy ChinnAmerican football player
- Kwity PayeAmerican football player
- Kylen GransonAmerican football tight end
Also born on February 17
- Michael Jordan1963
- Paris Hilton1981
- Billie Joe Armstrong1972
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt1981
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Cybill ShepherdAmerican actress
- Robert Sean LeonardAmerican actor
- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
- Arnold EbiketieAmerican football player
- Willie GayAmerican football linebacker
- Talanoa HufangaAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jack CochraneAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Min Woo LeeAustralian golfer
- Maitreyi RamakrishnanCanadian actress
- Griffin GluckAmerican actor
- Lexi JonesEnglish photographer, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter; daughter of David Bowie
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Phil McGrawAmerican television personality (born 1950)
- Ron LivingstonAmerican actor
- Tommy MottolaAmerican music executive
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Arthur’s cards
Computed from February 17, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q351838 (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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Kennedy 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 Arthur Kennedy.
Quick answers about Arthur Kennedy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Arthur Kennedy?
- Arthur Kennedy was an Aquarius: born February 17, 1914, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Arthur Kennedy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1914 birth.
- How tall was Arthur Kennedy?
- Arthur Kennedy was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Arthur Kennedy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Arthur Kennedy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Arthur Kennedy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Arthur Kennedy's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
