Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster (born November 2, 1913, New York City, United States; died 1994), was an American actor. Lancaster's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Burt Lancaster’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Burt
Burt Lancaster’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Burt in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~6,555
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
In 1913, 36 American boys were registered Burt — 789th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burt’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Burt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Burt apart
Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Burt, according to the stars
Core essence
Burt does not do surface. The core of Burt 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 Burt is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Burt wants to be loved
Burt wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Burt gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Burt creates
How Burt makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Burt creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Burt is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Burt is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Burt 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 Burt's birth date. Working below.
Where Burt sits
Six lines
Burt’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Burt Lancaster
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° 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 crescent, 24% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual Burt's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus · 1 planet 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 →Burt Lancaster at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Burt Lancaster's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Burt Lancaster was born on November 2, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Burt Lancaster's birth date, November 2, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Burt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burt Lancaster's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Burt Lancaster combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Burt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Burt’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 2.4° orb
Burt’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.8° to 2.8° orb
Burt’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.1° to 7.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.8° to 7.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Burt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 10°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°30′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 15°44′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 24°25′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Burt’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Burt’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Jupiter, VenusAn 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.1°
More people like Burt
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- Charles SingletonAmerican songwriter
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- Keyes BeechAmerican journalist
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More charts like Burt’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Salvatore CascioItalian actor (born 1979)
- Tisca ChopraIndian actress (born 1973)
- Kevin J. O'ConnorAmerican actor
Born in Ox years
- Coi LerayAmerican rapper and singer
- Kevin KwanAsian-American novelist
- K. MichelleAmerican singer
Also born on November 2
- Shah Rukh Khan1965
- David Schwimmer1966
- Larry Fink1952
- Jon M. Chu1979
- Danny Amendola1985
- Karamo Brown1980
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
- Christian GonzalezAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jarrick Bernard-ConverseAmerican football player
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Lily AldridgeAmerican model
- Joy-Anna DuggarAmerican reality television participant and daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar
- Allyson FelixAmerican track and field athlete
- David FosterCanadian musician, record producer, songwriter
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Dustin HoffmanAmerican actor (born 1937)
- Justin HartleyAmerican actor (born 1977)
- Derek HoughAmerican dancer
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
- Sean AstinAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Frederic ForrestAmerican actor
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Burt’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q160528 (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 Hal Wallis Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Burt Lancaster 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 Burt Lancaster.
Quick answers about Burt Lancaster’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burt Lancaster?
- Burt Lancaster was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1913, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Burt Lancaster's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1913 birth.
- How tall was Burt Lancaster?
- Burt Lancaster was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Burt Lancaster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burt Lancaster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burt Lancaster's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burt Lancaster's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
