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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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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 1880
1962
its peak year
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Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barry sits
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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.
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Barry Humphries in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Barry Humphries, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Aries 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.
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
Barry’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
Barry’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.1° to 3.2° orb
Barry’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
Barry’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
Barry’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
Barry’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 5.7° orb
Barry’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 28°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Barry building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAries 24°10′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Barry looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 21°57′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Barry is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°28′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Barry is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°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 Barry 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.
- 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°
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°).
Barry’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Barry is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Barry’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barry Humphries, 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
Barry’s cards
Every card is computed from February 17, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Barry Humphries, 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
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q734221, 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 WTCA, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barry Humphries at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- 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 time was Barry Humphries 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 Barry Humphries's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 17, 1934 birth date.
- What was Barry Humphries's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 17, 1934 birth date.
- 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.
