Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr (born August 13, 1895, New York City, United States; died 1967), was an American actor. Lahr is best remembered for The Wizard of Oz. Lahr's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Bert Lahr’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Bert
Bert Lahr’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Bert in the U.S.?
#10866
US rank in 2025
~34,242
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1895, 149 American boys and 7 girls were registered Bert — 114th among boys and 1,315th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Bert apart
Sebastian Stan (1982) and Domenico Dolce (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Bert, according to the stars
Core essence
Bert is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Bert is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Bert is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Bert needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Bert creates
How Bert makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Bert is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Bert is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bert channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Bert's birth date. Working below.
Where Bert sits
Six lines
Bert’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Bert Lahr
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 2.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 46% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Bert's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Bert Lahr's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 13, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Bert Lahr was born on August 13, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Bert Lahr's birth date, August 13, 1895, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Bert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bert Lahr's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Bert Lahr combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Bert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Taurus 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Bert’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.0° orb
Bert’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.4° to 2.4° orb
Bert’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssquarePluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 7°29′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 27°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 4°25′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 5°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.2°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.6°
- Ceres square Venus 2.9°
Bert’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bert’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
More people like Bert
Other actors
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- Fredric March1897
- Renée Jeanne Falconetti1892
- Spencer Tracy1900
- Ellen Widmann1894
- J. Carrol Naish1896
Born in United States
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- George BurnsAmerican comedian, actor, writer and singer
- H. L. DavisAmerican novelist and poet
- Robert S. MullikenAmerican physicist, chemist and botanical collector
- Henry E. PilkentonAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
- Edna Purvianceactress
More charts like Bert’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Drake LondonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Divine DeabloAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Derwin JamesAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Goat years
- Millicent SimmondsAmerican actress
- Anna CathcartCanadian actress
- Quvenzhané WallisAmerican actress (born 2003)
Also born on August 13
- Sebastian Stan1982
- Domenico Dolce1958
- Fidel Castro1926
- Na Jaemin2000
- Corey Fogelmanis1999
- John Slattery1962
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Bengt I. SamuelssonSwedish biochemist
- John VaneEnglish pharmacologist
- James RothmanAmerican biologist and Nobel laureate
Other Leo Goat charts
- Tom McCamusCanadian actor
- Kimia HosseiniIranian actress
- Stanley MiddletonBritish writer
- Louis E. BrusAmerican chemist
Other Tidal Scholars
- Colby WoodenAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jordyn TysonAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Morgan MosesAmerican football player
- A. J. BrownAmerican football player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- George Davis SnellAmerican geneticist
- Rainer WeissAmerican physicist
- Tasuku HonjoJapanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Bert’s cards
Computed from August 13, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q827411 (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 It is difficult to trace the history of the image to a single author, as various versions of this image (or others from the same photo-session) appear to have been distributed numerous times by numerous publicity agencies. However, the earliest record of distribution of an alternate image from the same photo-session appears to have been by Bill Doll & Company for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (see bottom image of original upload), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bert Lahr at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bert Lahr.
Quick answers about Bert Lahr’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bert Lahr?
- Bert Lahr was a Leo: born August 13, 1895, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Bert Lahr's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 13, 1895 birth.
- What was Bert Lahr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bert Lahr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bert Lahr's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bert Lahr's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
