Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner (born December 24, 1922, Grabtown, United States, 19:10; died 1990), was an American actress. Gardner is best remembered for The Barefoot Contessa, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Killers. Gardner's honours include Silver Shell for Best Actress and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Ava Gardner’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
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Ava Gardner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
~344,441
Americans share it since 1880
2007
its peak year
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Ava’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Ava, according to the stars
Core essence
Ava is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ava 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Ava is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Ava needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Ava wants to be loved
Ava 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 Ava even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ava creates
How Ava makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ava creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ava 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ava is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ava slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Ava's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Ava Gardner's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Ava Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, which falls in a Water 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 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Ava Gardner's birth date, December 24, 1922, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ava’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ava Gardner's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ava Gardner's timed chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ava Gardner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Ava’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranustrinePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb
Ava’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 0.3° orb
Ava’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarstrinePlutoapplying · 0.4° orb
Ava’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 0.7° orb
Ava’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.1° orb
Ava’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
Ava’s growth flows straight into their depths.
JupitertrineUranusseparating · 1.8° orb
Ava’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarstrineJupiterapplying · 2.2° orb
Ava’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
Ava’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MercurysextileUranusseparating · 2.5° orb
Ava’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 2.8° orb
Ava’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
Ava’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 6.3° orb
Ava’s mind grinds against their discipline.
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.9° orb
Ava’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ava’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.
⚷ ChironAries 12°58′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ava may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°18′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Ava is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°21′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Ava is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°48′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ava is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°24′ · House 10
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 Ava 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.
- Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.9°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Moon 1.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.7°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.7°
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°).
Ava’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Ava is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Ava’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Pisces · Moon, Mars, 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.
Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Moon · Saturn, Neptune, MoonTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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 quincunx Saturn 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Moon quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
Ava’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 9 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 7 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 7 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 5 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 1 | Venus, Jupiter | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 5 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 4 | Sun, Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 9 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 2 | Moon, Mars, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 9 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 5 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 7 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ava’s cards
Every card is computed from December 24, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ava’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q164487, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ava Gardner at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Ava Gardner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ava Gardner?
- Ava Gardner was a Capricorn: born December 24, 1922, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Ava Gardner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1922 birth.
- What time was Ava Gardner born?
- 19:10 local time in Grabtown, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Ava Gardner's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 19:10 birth time in Grabtown, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Ava Gardner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1922 birth date.
- What was Ava Gardner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1922 birth time.
- Where was Ava Gardner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ava Gardner's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: disposes Venus, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
