Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith (born November 16, 1907, Cleveland, United States; died 1997), was an American actor. Meredith served as President of Actors Equity Association. Meredith's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award.
Burgess Meredith’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Burgess
Burgess Meredith’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Burgess in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~1,089
Americans share it since 1884
1922
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1907, Burgess came 1,112th, carried by 7 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burgess’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on B (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Burgess’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
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 record
What sets Burgess apart
José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Burgess, according to the stars
Core essence
Burgess does not do surface. The core of Burgess 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 Burgess is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Burgess runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Burgess needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Burgess wants to be loved
Burgess wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Burgess and watch them fall for you again.
How Burgess creates
How Burgess makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Burgess creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Burgess 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Burgess 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Burgess goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Burgess's birth date. Working below.
Where Burgess sits
Six lines
Burgess’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Burgess Meredith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Mirach, in Andromeda, 78.1° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.5°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 Cleveland at all: they sit past the −48.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Burgess's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Grand trine
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Burgess Meredith's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Burgess Meredith was born on November 16, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Burgess Meredith's birth date, November 16, 1907, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Burgess’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burgess Meredith's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Burgess Meredith combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Burgess’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aries 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
stableSunsquareMars1.5° to 1.8° orb
Burgess’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
Burgess’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
Burgess’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysquareMars2.5° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 6.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Burgess’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 25°60′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 9°35′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 20°19′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros trine Venus 0.3°
- Eros square Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.2°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.8°
Burgess’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Burgess’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.9°
Burgess’s family here
One relative of Burgess Meredith also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Burgess
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More charts like Burgess’s
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Also born on November 16
- José Saramago1922
- Chinua Achebe1930
- Lisa Bonet1967
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Channing TatumAmerican actor, dancer and model
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- Bella HadidAmerican model
Other Scorpio Goat charts
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- Julia RobertsAmerican actress
- Whoopi GoldbergAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
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Other Steadfast Scholars
- Asian DollAmerican rapper (born 19969
- Cole HolcombAmerican football player (born 1996)
- D.J. MontgomeryAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Markquese BellAmerican football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Patton OswaltAmerican actor and comedian
- Chester Conklinactor, comedian
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Burgess’s cards
Computed from November 16, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burgess’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343633 (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 Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Burgess Meredith 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 Burgess Meredith.
Quick answers about Burgess Meredith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burgess Meredith?
- Burgess Meredith was a Scorpio: born November 16, 1907, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Burgess Meredith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1907 birth.
- How tall was Burgess Meredith?
- Burgess Meredith was 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Burgess Meredith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burgess Meredith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burgess Meredith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burgess Meredith's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
