Burt Young
Burt Young (born April 30, 1940, Queens, United States; died 2023), was an American actor.
Burt Young’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Burt
Burt Young’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Burt in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~6,555
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1940, Burt came 702nd, carried by 74 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burt’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Burt apart
Training came by way of Actors Studio.
The working life starts in 1970, at 30.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Burt Young: People from Port Washington, New York, United States Marines and Male actors from Queens, New York.
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Actors Studio
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1970
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Burt, according to the stars
Core essence
Burt is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Burt is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Burt wants to be loved
Burt wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Burt like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Burt creates
How Burt makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Burt 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: Burt is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Burt 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Burt scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Young
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Queens at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Queens on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 34% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Queens, United States
- Lived in
- Port Washington
Wikidata records Port Washington as Burt Young's home, against Queens as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Burt Young: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Burt's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · No Water planets
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 Young at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Burt Young's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Burt Young was born on April 30, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Burt Young's birth date, April 30, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Burt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burt Young's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Burt Young combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Burt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMoontrineVenus0.0° to 5.6° orb
Burt’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Burt’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
Burt’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.6° to 2.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Burt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 15°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°57′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 8°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 19°03′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Eros trine Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 3.0°
Burt’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Burt’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
More people like Burt
Other screenwriters
- Jacques Perrin1941
- Thomas M. Disch1940
- Lance Henriksen1940
- Harvey Keitel1939
- Bernardo Bertolucci1941
- J. M. Coetzee1940
Born in United States
- Lewis SpratlanAmerican music academic
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
- Lance HenriksenAmerican actor
- Smokey RobinsonAmerican R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)
- Alexei PanshinAmerican writer and critic
- Joseph L. GoldsteinAmerican biochemist
More charts like Burt’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Carnie WilsonAmerican singer
- Chris ZylkaAmerican actor and model
- Iker CasillasSpanish association football player
Born in Dragon years
- Marc GuéhiIvorian-English footballer (born 2000)
- Marcus Holmgren PedersenNorwegian footballer (born 2000)
- Eric GarcíaSpanish association football player
Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
- Ana de Armas1988
- Travis Scott1991
- Jane Campion1954
- Kunal Nayyar1981
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Mar Cabrainvestigative journalist
- Eudora WeltyAmerican short story writer, novelist and photographer
- Joshua LoganAmerican stage and film director and writer
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Brooke HoganAmerican singer and television personality
- Gail SimmonsCanadian food writer
- James DoyleBritish jockey
- Yuki TsunodaJapanese racing driver
Other Tidal Guardians
- Clifford K. BerrymanAmerican cartoonist
- Toshio SakaiJapanese photographer
- Leland StoweAmerican journalist
- Talbot HamlinAmerican architect, professor, and librarian
Famous people with Life Path 3
- George PorterBritish chemist
- Renato DulbeccoItalian-born American virologist
- Salvatore QuasimodoItalian writer
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Burt’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329700 (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 SilvioPozatto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Burt Young.
Quick answers about Burt Young’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burt Young?
- Burt Young was a Taurus: born April 30, 1940, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Burt Young's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1940 birth.
- What was Burt Young's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burt Young's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burt Young's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burt Young's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
