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Bo Derek

Bo Derek (born November 20, 1956, Long Beach, United States, 14:13), aged 69, is an American actress. Derek's honours include Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture.

Bo Derek’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Bo Derek’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Bo Derek in the U.S.?

#449

US rank in 2025

~15,849

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Bo Derek’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Bo Derek apart

Joe Biden (1942) and Nadine Gordimer (1923) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Bo Derek, according to the stars

Core essence

Bo Derek does not do surface. The core of Bo Derek is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Bo Derek is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Bo Derek is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Bo Derek needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Bo Derek wants to be loved

Bo Derek wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Bo Derek gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Bo Derek creates

How Bo Derek makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Bo Derek creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Bo Derek is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Bo Derek is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Bo Derek 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 Bo Derek's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bo Derek sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Bo Derek

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bo Derek

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Bo Derek

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bo Derek

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Bo Derek

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bo Derek

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Bo Derek's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Bo Derek was born on November 20, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Bo Derek's birth date, November 20, 1956, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Bo Derek’s chart

Bo Derek’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 28°35′ · house 8☉28°Moon in Cancer · 3°34′ · house 4☽3°Mercury in Sagittarius · 3°10′ · house 9☿3°Venus in Libra · 24°20′ · house 7♀24°Mars in Pisces · 22°54′ · house 12♂22°Jupiter in Virgo · 27°11′ · house 6♃27°Saturn in Sagittarius · 4°33′ · house 9♄4°Uranus in Leo · 6°57′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Scorpio · 1°11′ · house 8♆1°Pluto in Virgo · 0°25′ · house 6♇0°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAri 7°35′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLib 7°35′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 4°33′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 4°33′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantAries
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.8° orb

    Bo Derek’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunsextileJupiterseparating · 1.4° orb

    Bo Derek’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb

    Bo Derek’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • SunsquarePlutoapplying · 1.8° orb

    Bo Derek’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb

    Bo Derek’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 2.4° orb

    Bo Derek’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb

    Bo Derek’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 3.1° orb

    Bo Derek’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 3.8° orb

    Bo Derek’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 4.1° orb

    Bo Derek’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MarsoppositionJupiterapplying · 4.3° orb

    Bo Derek’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 4.6° orb

    Bo Derek’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SuntrineMarsseparating · 5.7° orb

    Bo Derek’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb

    Bo Derek’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.0° orb

    Bo Derek’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MoonsquareJupiterseparating · 6.4° orb

    Bo Derek’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 6.8° orb

    Bo Derek’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Bo Derek’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 7°12′ · House 11

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Bo Derek making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°54′ · House 1

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Bo Derek looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 10°39′ · House 11

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Bo Derek is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 2°04′ · House 11

    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. Bo Derek is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°08′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Bo Derek at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Ascendant 0.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Ascendant 0.7°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.5°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 2.6°

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°).

Bo Derek’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Aries; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Bo Derek is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Bo Derek’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 quincunx Mercury 0.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun biquintile Moon 1.0°
  • Moon quincunx Saturn 1.0°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°

Bo Derek’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AriesMars in Pisces, house 12emptyself, body, how you arrive
2TaurusVenus in Libra, house 7emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3GeminiMercury in Sagittarius, house 9emptymind, siblings, the local world
4CancerMoon in Cancer, house 4Moonhome, family, roots
5LeoSun in Scorpio, house 8Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6VirgoMercury in Sagittarius, house 9Jupiter, Plutowork, habits, health
7LibraVenus in Libra, house 7Venuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 6Sun, Neptuneshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 6Mercury, Saturnbelief, travel, higher learning
10CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 9emptycareer, reputation, public life
11AquariusUranus in Leo, house 5emptyfriends, community, the future
12PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 8Marsthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Bo Derek’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Bo Derek’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229477, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bo Derek at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

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.

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Quick answers about Bo Derek’s chart

How old is Bo Derek?
Bo Derek is 69 years old, born November 20, 1956 in Long Beach, United States.
What zodiac sign is Bo Derek?
Bo Derek is a Scorpio: born November 20, 1956, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
What is Bo Derek's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1956 birth.
What time was Bo Derek born?
14:13 local time in Long Beach, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Bo Derek's rising sign?
Aries rising, calculated from the documented 14:13 birth time in Long Beach, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Bo Derek?
Bo Derek is 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Bo Derek's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 20, 1956 birth date.
What is Bo Derek's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 7°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 20, 1956 birth time.
Where is Bo Derek's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bo Derek's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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