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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Barbara
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
Of the names registered in 1907, Barbara came 129th, carried by 515 American girls.
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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, 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 Stanwyck took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1966, at 59.
The classrooms behind this chart: Erasmus Hall High School.
The working life starts in 1927, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as pulmonary emphysema.
The family line: born to Catherine McPhee and Byron Stevens and married Frank Fay and Robert Taylor.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Barbara Stanwyck: Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism, Deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and MPAPAI members.
Will Ferrell (1967) and Margaret Court (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Erasmus Hall High School
- Awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award (1987), Academy Honorary Award (1982) and Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1986)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1927
- Cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 84
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. 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 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.
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 Stanwyck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Rastaban, in Draco, 75.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 35% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Barbara Stanwyck: 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
68 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 16°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 2°02′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 14°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 28°31′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Barbara’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Barbara’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
More people like Barbara
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- John Patrick1905
- Ketti Frings1909
- Jean-Paul Sartre1905
- Ira Wolfert1908
- Samuel Beckett1906
Born in United States
- Joseph Kingsbury SmithAmerican journalist
- Hodding CarterAmerican writer
- William Randolph Hearst Jr.American newspaper editor
- James A. MichenerAmerican author
- James Thomas FlexnerAmerican biographer
- Robert YoungAmerican actor
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Born in Goat years
- Oleg DeripaskaRussian businessman
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- Xavier NielFrench billionaire businessman (born 1967)
Also born on July 16
- Will Ferrell1967
- Margaret Court1942
- Wizkid1990
- Luke Hemmings1996
- Corey Feldman1971
- James Maslow1990
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Dustin MoskovitzAmerican computer/Internet entrepreneur
- David TepperAmerican businessman
- Charles ButtAmerican grocer
Other Cancer Goat charts
- Oscar BobbNorwegian footballer (born 2003)
- Víctor MuñozSpanish association football player (born 2003)
- Oronde Gadsden IIAmerican football tight end
- SunooSouth Korean singer
Other Radiant Pioneers
- PedriSpanish association football player
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
- Art GarfunkelAmerican singer
- Camila MendesAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 22
- M. J. StewartAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Daxton HillAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Da'Shawn HandAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Barbara’s cards
Computed from July 16, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
22 · Master Builder☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94002 (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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Stanwyck 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 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.
- 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 was Barbara Stanwyck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barbara Stanwyck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
