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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.

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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.

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 wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

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.

✦ 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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Barry Humphries in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ahead 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

Worries 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

Endings 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

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.3° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.4° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 27°44′☉27°Moon in Aries · 8°16′☽8°Mercury in Pisces · 15°45′☿15°Venus in Aquarius · 9°28′ · retrograde♀℞9°Mars in Pisces · 10°11′♂10°Jupiter in Libra · 23°03′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Aquarius · 19°52′♄19°Uranus in Aries · 24°21′♅24°Neptune in Virgo · 11°23′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Cancer · 22°58′ · retrograde♇℞22°

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

  • 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. 1. ♅ Uranus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Barry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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°

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Barry’s cards

Computed from February 17, 1934. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese 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.

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