Burl Ives
Burl Ives (born June 14, 1909, Hunt City, United States; died 1995), was an American musician. Ives's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.
Burl Ives’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Burl
Burl Ives’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Burl in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~7,200
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1909, 29 American boys were registered Burl — 474th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Burl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets Burl apart
Che Guevara (1928) and Donald J. Trump (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Burl, according to the stars
Core essence
Burl is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Burl needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Burl is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Burl needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Burl wants to be loved
Burl wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Burl gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Burl creates
How Burl makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Burl creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Burl is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Burl is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Burl slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Burl's birth date. Working below.
Where Burl sits
Six lines
Burl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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.
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 Burl Ives
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hunt City 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 Hunt City that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Hunt City at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.4° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Hunt City sits at 39.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hunt City at all: they sit past the −50.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 10% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Burl's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Saturn
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Burl Ives's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 14, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Burl Ives was born on June 14, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Burl Ives's birth date, June 14, 1909, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Burl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burl Ives' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Burl Ives combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Burl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.1° orb
Burl’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb
Burl’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.2° to 2.3° orb
Burl’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Burl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°06′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 26°07′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 3°15′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°09′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.8°
Burl’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Burl’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
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- Che Guevara1928
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- Henry FondaAmerican actor
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Other Gemini Rooster charts
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- Norman PowellAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
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Other Evergreen Healers
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- Nick RichardsJamaican basketball player (born 1997)
- Isaiah StewartAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Trey AlexanderAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 3
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- Hannah GodwinAmerican television personality
- Alyssa Farah GriffinAmerican political strategist (born 1989)
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Burl’s cards
Computed from June 14, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315723 (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 The original uploader was Gamaliel at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Burl Ives 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 Burl Ives.
Quick answers about Burl Ives’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burl Ives?
- Burl Ives was a Gemini: born June 14, 1909, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Burl Ives's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 14, 1909 birth.
- What was Burl Ives's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burl Ives's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burl Ives's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burl Ives's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
