Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938, Bridgeport, United States; died 2020), was an American actor. Dennehy is best remembered for First Blood. Dennehy's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Laurence Olivier Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
Brian Dennehy’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Brian Dennehy’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian feels the room before entering it. The core of Brian is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Brian, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Brian is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Brian needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Brian wants to be loved
Brian wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Brian openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Brian 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: Brian is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Brian is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Brian leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Brian does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Brian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brian sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Brian Dennehy at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Brian Dennehy's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Brian Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Brian Dennehy's birth date, July 9, 1938, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian Dennehy's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Brian Dennehy combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brian Dennehy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Sagittarius 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.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Brian’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.4° to 1.4° orb
Brian’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.6° to 2.5° orb
Brian’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° orb
Brian’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
Brian’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.1° orb
Brian’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
Brian’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.4° to 6.1° orb
Brian’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.5° to 4.8° orb
Brian’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.4° to 7.7° orb
Brian’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Brian’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 3°60′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Brian is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Brian is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 13°22′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Brian is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Brian is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Brian is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 3.0°
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°).
Brian’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. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Brian is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Brian’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 Cancer · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brian Dennehy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on July 9
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Brian’s cards
Every card is computed from July 9, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brian Dennehy, 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
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313545, 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 Justin Hoch photographing for Hudson Union Society, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian Dennehy at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Brian Dennehy.
Quick answers about Brian Dennehy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Brian Dennehy?
- Brian Dennehy was a Cancer: born July 9, 1938, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- What was Brian Dennehy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1938 birth.
- What time was Brian Dennehy 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 Brian Dennehy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 9, 1938 birth date.
- What was Brian Dennehy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 9, 1938 birth date.
- Where was Brian Dennehy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Brian Dennehy's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
