Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford (born December 9, 1911, Philadelphia, United States; died 1986), was an American actor. Crawford's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Broderick Crawford’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Broderick
Broderick Crawford’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Broderick in the U.S.?
#2573
US rank in 2025
~8,952
Americans share it since 1950
2009
its peak year
US records hold Broderick from 1950 onward, though not for 1911 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2009 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Broderick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on B (2) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Broderick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Broderick apart
Broderick Crawford took the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1950, at 39.
Training came by way of Harvard College.
The working life starts in 1937, at 26.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke; the grave is at Ferndale Cemetery.
On the family side, Broderick Crawford was born to Helen Broderick and married Joan Tabor.
Wikipedia's editors put Broderick Crawford under People from Freeport, New York, Male actors from Rancho Mirage, California and United States Army Air Forces non-commissioned officers.
Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1950) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1950)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Buried at
- Ferndale Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
What the chart says
Broderick, according to the stars
Core essence
Broderick is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Broderick is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Broderick creates
How Broderick makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Broderick creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Broderick is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Broderick is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Broderick is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Broderick's birth date. Working below.
Where Broderick sits
Six lines
Broderick’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Broderick Crawford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 78% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
The death is recorded at Rancho Mirage, Riverside County in 1986.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Broderick Crawford: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Broderick's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
3 unaspected planets · Yod onto Pluto · 2 planets 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 →Broderick Crawford at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Broderick Crawford's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Broderick Crawford was born on December 9, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Broderick Crawford's birth date, December 9, 1911, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Broderick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Broderick Crawford's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Broderick Crawford combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Broderick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Broderick’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrinePluto1.6° to 2.7° orb
Broderick’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.1° orb
Broderick’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareUranus2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.5° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Broderick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 3°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 13°39′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°25′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.2°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.8°
Broderick’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Broderick’s chart
Yod onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.0°
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Also born on December 9
- Grace Hopper1906
- Simon Helberg1980
- Shin Yu-na2003
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- Judi Dench1934
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Steven BauerEuro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
- John GavinAmerican film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico
- Jack LemmonAmerican actor
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
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- Aaron RodgersAmerican football player (born 1983)
- Rodolphe PaulyFrench actor
Other Tidal Healers
- Dean-Charles ChapmanEnglish actor
- Norm MacdonaldCanadian comedian
- Hayley MillsBritish actress (born 1946)
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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Broderick’s cards
Computed from December 9, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Broderick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182349 (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 Broderick Crawford at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Broderick Crawford’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Broderick Crawford?
- Broderick Crawford was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1911, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Broderick Crawford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1911 birth.
- What was Broderick Crawford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Broderick Crawford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Broderick Crawford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Broderick Crawford's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
