Burt Young
Burt Young (born April 30, 1940, Queens, United States; died 2023), was an American actor.
Burt Young’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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.
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Burt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Burt sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Burt Young, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
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
Burt’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
Burt’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
Burt’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.2° to 4.5° orb
Burt’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
Burt’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.6° to 5.4° orb
Burt’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.1° orb
Burt’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.8° orb
Burt’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 15°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Burt is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°57′ (moves 0.08° 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 Burt caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCapricorn 8°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Burt is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 19°03′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Burt needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Burt is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Burt’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Burt is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Burt’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.
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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Burt Young, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Dragon years
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Burt’s cards
Every card is computed from April 30, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Burt Young, 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
Burt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329700, 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 SilvioPozatto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Burt Young 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.
- What was Burt Young's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 30, 1940 birth date.
- What was Burt Young's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 30, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
