Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries (born February 17, 1934, Kew, Australia; died 2023), was an Australian comedian and actor. Humphries's honours include Officer of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Order of Australia and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Barry Humphries’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Barry
Barry Humphries’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
Of the names registered in 1934, Barry came 226th, carried by 523 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
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
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Barry apart
Michael Jordan (1963) and Paris Hilton (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Barry runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Barry needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Barry creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Barry is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Barry is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Barry slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kew 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 Kew that night
Computed for 37.81°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Furud stood nearest the zenith over Kew at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.0° above the horizon in Canis Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 37.8°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 15% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Pluto · Venus 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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Barry Humphries's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 17, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Barry Humphries was born on February 17, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Barry Humphries's birth date, February 17, 1934, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry Humphries' date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Barry Humphries combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Aries 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
stableJupitersquarePluto0.1° orb
Barry’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.8° to 1.6° orb
Barry’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.3° orb
Barry’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquarePluto1.4° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 4.9° to 18.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 28°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 24°10′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 21°57′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°28′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron square Sun 1.2°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.9°
Barry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Barry’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.9°
More people like Barry
Other screenwriters
- Ursula Andress1936
- Bob Shaw1931
- Alan Alda1936
- Miloš Forman1932
- Alain Delon1935
- Michel Legrand1932
Born in Australia
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- Margaret CourtAustralian tennis player
- Peter C. DohertyAustralian immunologist
- William Lawrence BraggAustralian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
- Kerry StokesAustralian businessman
- Howard FloreyAustralian pathologist
More charts like Barry’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Nick WoltemadeGerman association football player (born 2002)
- İsmail YüksekTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Fabian RiederSwiss association football player
Born in Dog years
- Hong Eun-chaeSouth Korean singer
- HaerinSouth Korean singer, songwriter and model
- Bethenny FrankelAmerican television personality
Also born on February 17
- Michael Jordan1963
- Paris Hilton1981
- Billie Joe Armstrong1972
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt1981
- Bonnie Wright1991
- Denise Richards1971
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Eli RothAmerican filmmaker and actor
- Salvatore CascioItalian actor (born 1979)
- Mélissa Désormeaux-PoulinFrench Canadian actress
Other Aquarius Dog charts
- Will RileyCanadian basketball player (born 2006)
- Tati WestbrookAmerican beauty YouTuber
- Brian ArmstrongAmerican business executive and investor
- Radovan VítekCzech entrepreneur
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Louis LaCossAmerican journalist
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
- John Hugheseditor, born 1930
- William Jay SmithAmerican writer, translator, editor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Sami SheenAmerican model and media personality
- Kevin SmithAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
- Maisie WilliamsBritish actress (b. 1997)
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Barry’s cards
Computed from February 17, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q734221 (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 WTCA, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barry Humphries at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry Humphries.
Quick answers about Barry Humphries’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barry Humphries?
- Barry Humphries was an Aquarius: born February 17, 1934, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Barry Humphries's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1934 birth.
- What was Barry Humphries's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barry Humphries's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barry Humphries's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barry Humphries's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
