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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Barbara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barbara sits
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Barbara’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hollywood on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Barbara Hershey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Barbara’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.1° to 2.3° orb
Barbara’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
Barbara’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb
Barbara’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
Barbara’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Barbara’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb
Barbara’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.8° orb
Barbara’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb
Barbara’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Barbara carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°44′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Barbara is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 5°47′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Barbara is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 20°59′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Barbara needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Barbara at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Barbara’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Barbara is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Barbara’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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 excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barbara Hershey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Barbara
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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
Every card is computed from February 5, 1948, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Barbara Hershey, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229042, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- 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 time was Barbara Hershey born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Barbara Hershey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the February 5, 1948 birth date.
- What is Barbara Hershey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 5, 1948 birth date.
- 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.
