Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (born July 16, 1907, Brooklyn, United States; died 1990), was an American actress. Stanwyck's honours include Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Barbara Stanwyck’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Barbara Stanwyck’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 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara feels the room before entering it. The core of Barbara is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Barbara, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Barbara wants to be loved
Barbara wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Barbara gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara 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. Barbara 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: Barbara is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Barbara is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Barbara does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Barbara's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Barbara Stanwyck's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Barbara Stanwyck was born on July 16, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Builds what others only dream about.
Barbara Stanwyck's birth date, July 16, 1907, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara Stanwyck's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Barbara Stanwyck 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.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Barbara Stanwyck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Barbara’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Barbara’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.1° to 2.4° orb
Barbara’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Barbara’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.0° to 4.2° orb
Barbara’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionMars3.1° to 4.6° orb
Barbara’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
Barbara’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb
Barbara’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb
Barbara’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.7° orb
Barbara’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 16°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Barbara making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLeo 2°02′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Barbara is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAries 14°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Barbara is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 28°31′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Barbara feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Barbara guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.7°
- Eros square Neptune 2.2°
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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Barbara is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barbara Stanwyck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Barbara’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Barbara Stanwyck, 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 Q94002, 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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Stanwyck 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Barbara Stanwyck.
Quick answers about Barbara Stanwyck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barbara Stanwyck?
- Barbara Stanwyck was a Cancer: born July 16, 1907, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Barbara Stanwyck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1907 birth.
- What time was Barbara Stanwyck 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 was Barbara Stanwyck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1907 birth date.
- What was Barbara Stanwyck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1907 birth date.
- Where was Barbara Stanwyck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barbara Stanwyck's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
