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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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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.
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Burgess’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Burgess sits
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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.
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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. 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 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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Burgess Meredith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aries 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.
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
Burgess’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
Burgess’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
Burgess’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 4.6° orb
Burgess’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.6° orb
Burgess’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 6.2° orb
Burgess’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb
Burgess’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
Burgess’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.1° orb
Burgess’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Burgess making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 25°60′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Burgess caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aries 9°35′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Burgess is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 20°19′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Burgess feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Burgess guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Burgess’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Burgess 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 Burgess’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Burgess Meredith, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Burgess’s family here
One relative of Burgess Meredith also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Burgess’s cards
Every card is computed from November 16, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Burgess Meredith, 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
Burgess’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343633, 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 Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Burgess Meredith at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- 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.
- What time was Burgess Meredith 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.
- 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 from the November 16, 1907 birth date.
- What was Burgess Meredith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 16, 1907 birth date.
- 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.
