Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey (born February 5, 1948, Hollywood, United States), aged 78, is an American actress. Hershey's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Barbara Hershey’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Barbara
Barbara Hershey’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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 1948, Barbara came 3rd among girls and 783rd among boys, carried by 46,826 American girls and 76 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barbara’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Barbara apart
Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Barbara 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 Barbara wants to be loved
Barbara wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Barbara, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Barbara creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Barbara is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Barbara is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Barbara channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Barbara Hershey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hollywood 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 Hollywood that night
Computed for 34.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Hollywood at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Taurus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hollywood at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
How unusual Barbara's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde
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 →Barbara Hershey at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Barbara Hershey's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Barbara Hershey was born on February 5, 1948, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Barbara Hershey's birth date, February 5, 1948, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara Hershey's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Barbara Hershey combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Barbara’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Barbara’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.1° to 1.1° orb
Barbara’s affections grind against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.8° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Barbara’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°44′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°47′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 20°59′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mars 0.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.3°
Barbara’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Barbara’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Uranus, VenusAn 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.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.1°
More people like Barbara
Other actors
- Bernadette Peters1948
- Joe Walsh1947
- Mercedes Ruehl1948
- Richard Dreyfuss1947
- Dianne Wiest1948
- Stephen Collins1947
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Fellow Aquarius suns
- James DeanAmerican actor
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- Paris HiltonAmerican media personality
Born in Pig years
- Cristian RoldanAmerican soccer player
- Jonathan TahGerman footballer (born 1996)
- Theo BongondaDR Congolese footballer
Also born on February 5
- Cristiano Ronaldo1985
- Neymar1992
- Carlos Tevez1984
- Henry Golding1987
- Tiwa Savage1980
- Kevin Gates1986
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Thad LuckinbillAmerican actor and film producer
- Mike ColterAmerican actor
- Julie DelpyFrench and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer
Other Aquarius Pig charts
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- India LoveUS model and influencer
- Kristen DouteAmerican actress
- Hannah GodwinAmerican television personality
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Nathalie KelleyAustralian actress
- CeCe WinansAmerican gospel singer
- Adut AkechSudanese-Australian model
- StromaeBelgian singer and songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Gena RowlandsAmerican actress
- Ben JohnsonAmerican film actor
- Rachel BrosnahanAmerican actress
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 February 5, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229042 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Hershey at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barbara Hershey.
Quick answers about Barbara Hershey’s chart
- How old is Barbara Hershey?
- Barbara Hershey is 78 years old, born February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Barbara Hershey?
- Barbara Hershey is an Aquarius: born February 5, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Barbara Hershey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1948 birth.
- What is Barbara Hershey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Barbara Hershey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Barbara Hershey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Barbara Hershey's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
