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Barry Diller

Barry Diller (born February 2, 1942, San Francisco, United States), aged 84, is an American businessman (born 1942).

Barry Diller’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Barry Diller’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Barry in the U.S.?

#1520

US rank in 2025

~182,036

Americans share it since 1883

1962

its peak year

In 1942, 3,209 American boys and 14 girls were registered Barry — 79th among boys and 2,422nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Barry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

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 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Barry apart

Study took Barry Diller to Beverly Hills High School and University of California, Los Angeles.

Barry Diller was 22 when the work began in 1964.

The family line: married Diane von Fürstenberg and raised 2 children.

Shakira (1977) and Ayn Rand (1905) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Beverly Hills High School and University of California, Los Angeles
Working from
1964
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
20

What the chart says

Barry, according to the stars

Core essence

Barry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Barry 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 Barry wants to be loved

Barry wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Barry be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Barry creates

How Barry 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. Barry 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: Barry is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Barry 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Barry is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Barry's birth date. Working below.

Where Barry sits

Six lines

Barry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Barry

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Barry

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Barry

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Barry

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Barry

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Barry

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Barry Diller

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Barry’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 82.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at San Francisco at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.

How unusual Barry's chart is

Chart pattern score

75 / 100 · Rare

6 planets retrograde · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Uranus

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.

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Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Barry Diller's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Barry Diller was born on February 2, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Barry Diller's birth date, February 2, 1942, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Barry’s chart

Barry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.9° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 13°22′☉13°Moon in Virgo · 0°34′☽0°Mercury in Aquarius · 26°43′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Aquarius · 13°12′ · retrograde♀℞13°Mars in Taurus · 11°27′♂11°Jupiter in Gemini · 11°24′ · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Taurus · 21°44′♄21°Uranus in Taurus · 26°21′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Virgo · 29°35′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 4°27′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Barry’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 0.5° orb

    Barry’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.2° to 2.3° orb

    Barry’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.5° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 11°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 13°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 0°24′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 0.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 0.7°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.9°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 2.1°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.4°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°

Barry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Barry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°

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Barry’s cards

Computed from February 2, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q587455 (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.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry Diller.

Quick answers about Barry Diller’s chart

How old is Barry Diller?
Barry Diller is 84 years old, born February 2, 1942 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Barry Diller?
Barry Diller is an Aquarius: born February 2, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Barry Diller's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1942 birth.
What is Barry Diller's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Barry Diller's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Barry Diller's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Barry Diller's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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