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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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 1909

1972

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1938, Brian came 204th, carried by 609 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

2

Soul Urge · closeness

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Brian apart

Tom Hanks (1956) and Courtney Love (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Brian sits

Six lines

Brian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Brian

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brian

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Brian

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brian

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Brian

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brian

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bridgeport on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Brian’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 75.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bridgeport that night

Computed for 41.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Bridgeport at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.4° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Brian's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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.

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Brian Dennehy at a glance

Cancer Sun

Guards 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.

What Cancer means →

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Brian Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Brian Dennehy's birth date, July 9, 1938, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Brian’s chart

Brian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.9° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.8° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Cancer · 16°46′☉16°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°32′☽14°Mercury in Leo · 4°34′☿4°Venus in Leo · 24°41′♀24°Mars in Cancer · 21°25′♂21°Jupiter in Pisces · 1°44′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Aries · 17°40′♄17°Uranus in Taurus · 16°59′♅16°Neptune in Virgo · 18°47′♆18°Pluto in Cancer · 29°18′♇29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.4° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.4° to 7.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 3°60′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 13°22′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 3.0°

Brian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Brian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Brian’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1938. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313545 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Brian Dennehy's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Brian Dennehy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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