Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25, 1927, Atlanta, United States; died 2017), was an American actress and singer. Cook's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Theatre World Award.
Barbara Cook’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Barbara
Barbara Cook’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Barbara in the U.S.?
#968
US rank in 2025
~1,440,831
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1927, Barbara came 10th among girls and 1,113th among boys, carried by 13,161 American girls and 41 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barbara’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barbara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, 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 Barbara apart
Barbara Cook took the Theatre World Award in 1955, at 28.
The working life starts in 1950, at 23.
Cause of death is recorded as respiratory failure.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Barbara Cook: Deaths from respiratory failure in the United States, Actresses from Atlanta and American sopranos.
Pablo Picasso (1881) and Katy Perry (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1955), Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show (1987) and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (1958)
- Working from
- 1950
- Cause of death
- respiratory failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara does not do surface. The core of Barbara is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Barbara is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Barbara wants to be loved
Barbara wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Barbara and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Barbara creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Barbara 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 9 is the humanitarian. Barbara is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Computed from Barbara's birth date. Working below.
Where Barbara sits
Six lines
Barbara’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Barbara Cook
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atlanta 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 Atlanta that night
Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Atlanta was Scheat, in Pegasus, 82.0° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Atlanta on any night.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Atlanta, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2017.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Barbara Cook: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Barbara's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Uranus · Yod onto Uranus · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Barbara Cook's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 25, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Barbara Cook was born on October 25, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Barbara Cook's birth date, October 25, 1927, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara Cook's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Barbara Cook combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 7.7° orb
Barbara’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.0° orb
Barbara’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.1° to 0.7° orb
Barbara’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextilePluto0.5° to 1.2° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.3° to 1.7° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.3° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Barbara’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 3°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°51′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 28°25′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°13′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.9°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.9°
Barbara’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Barbara’s chart
Yod onto Uranus · Mars, Neptune, UranusTwo 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.- Yod onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
More people like Barbara
Other actors
- Jean Simmons1929
- Janet Leigh1927
- Max von Sydow1929
- Herbert Ross1927
- Audrey Hepburn1929
- William Daniels1927
Born in United States
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- W. S. MerwinAmerican poet
- Edward AlbeeAmerican playwright
- Wayne PetersonAmerican composer
- Patrick McGoohanIrish-American actor
- Marion WilliamsAmerican gospel singer
More charts like Barbara’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Friedrich MerzGerman politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician
- Robert F. KennedyAmerican politician and lawyer
Born in Rabbit years
- George CoulourisBritish actor
- Beverly D'AngeloAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Harvey KeitelAmerican actor
Also born on October 25
- Pablo Picasso1881
- Katy Perry1984
- Mia Wasikowska1989
- Dominik Szoboszlai2000
- Ciara1985
- Mia Goth1993
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Teagan QuitorianoAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Starling Thomas VAmerican football player
- Tony JeffersonAmerican football player (born 1992)
Other Scorpio Rabbit charts
- Dermot MulroneyAmerican actor
- Tara ReidAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Tatum O'NealAmerican actress (born 1963)
- Curtis StoneAustralian chef
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Yitzhak TshuvaIsraeli businessman
- Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
- Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFrench writer and aviator
- Brigitte BardotFrench actress, singer, animal rights activist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jack LemmonAmerican actor
- Roy ScheiderAmerican actor
- Lee Van CleefAmerican actor
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Barbara’s cards
Computed from October 25, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2883930 (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 Joella Marano at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellasportfolio/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Cook at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barbara Cook.
Quick answers about Barbara Cook’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barbara Cook?
- Barbara Cook was a Scorpio: born October 25, 1927, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Barbara Cook's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1927 birth.
- What was Barbara Cook's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barbara Cook's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barbara Cook's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barbara Cook's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
