Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson (born April 16, 1917, San Francisco, United States; died 2007), was an American actor. Nelson's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Barry Nelson’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Barry
Barry Nelson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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 1917, Barry came 1,294th, carried by 28 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Barry apart
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Barry is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Barry needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Barry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Barry wants to be loved
Barry wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Barry creates
How Barry makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Barry creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Barry is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Barry gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Barry Nelson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.3° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Francisco on any night.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 24% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · A bowl chart · 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 →Barry Nelson at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Barry Nelson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Barry Nelson was born on April 16, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Barry Nelson's birth date, April 16, 1917, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry Nelson's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Barry Nelson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Aquarius 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Barry’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.6° orb
Barry’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussextileUranus0.2° to 1.4° orb
Barry’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.4° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 27°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 8°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 28°05′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 3°26′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.6°
Barry’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Barry’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.1°
More people like Barry
Other actors
- June Allyson1917
- Richard Widmark1914
- Lena Horne1917
- Anthony Quinn1915
- Raymond Burr1917
- Orson Welles1915
Born in United States
- Gwendolyn BrooksAmerican writer
- Richard HofstadterAmerican historian and public intellectual
- William Standish KnowlesAmerican chemist
- Frederick Chapman RobbinsAmerican doctor
- John F. KennedyPresident of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Jack VanceAmerican mystery and speculative fiction writer
More charts like Barry’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Manuel NeuerGerman association football player (born 1986)
- Yassine BounouMoroccan association football player
- N'Golo KantéFrench footballer (born 1991)
Born in Snake years
- Ziaire WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Ben SheppardAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Zyon PullinAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Breck EisnerAmerican director
- Ray NaylerCanadian writer
- John BrunnerBritish author
Other Aries Snake charts
- Santiago GiménezMexican footballer (born 2001)
- William SalibaFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Angelo StillerGerman footballer
- Micky van de VenDutch footballer (born 2001)
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Daniel BrühlGerman actor
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Clifton WebbAmerican actor, singer and dancer
- Walter ScharfAmerican composer and arranger
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Adolphe MenjouAmerican actor
- Gian Maria VolonteItalian actor
- Al Ernest GarciaAmerican actor
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Barry’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q443790 (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 CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barry Nelson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry Nelson.
Quick answers about Barry Nelson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barry Nelson?
- Barry Nelson was an Aries: born April 16, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Barry Nelson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1917 birth.
- What was Barry Nelson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barry Nelson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barry Nelson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barry Nelson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
