Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born October 4, 1895, Kansas, United States; died 1966), was an American motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor. Keaton's honours include Academy Honorary Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Buster Keaton’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Buster
Buster Keaton’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Buster in the U.S.?
#6871
US rank in 2025
~8,178
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Buster ranked 505th in 1895, the year of this birth, with 16 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Buster’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
11
Soul Urge · insight
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Buster’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Buster apart
Buster Keaton took the Academy Honorary Award in 1959, at 64.
The working life starts in 1917, at 22.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Buster Keaton was born to Myra Keaton and Joe Keaton, married Natalie Talmadge and Eleanor Keaton and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Buster Keaton under American stunt performers, Academy Honorary Award recipients and Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Academy Honorary Award (1959)
- Working from
- 1917
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 99
What the chart says
Buster, according to the stars
Core essence
Buster makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Buster is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Buster 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 Buster needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Buster wants to be loved
Buster wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Buster and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Buster creates
How Buster makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Buster builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Buster 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Buster is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Buster leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Buster fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Buster's birth date. Working below.
Where Buster sits
Six lines
Buster’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 Buster Keaton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas 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 Kansas that night
Computed for 38.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Kansas at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Kansas at all: they sit past the −51.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 33° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kansas, United States
- Lived in
- Beverly Hills
Wikidata records Beverly Hills as Buster Keaton's home, against Kansas as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1966.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Buster Keaton: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Buster's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · Venus retrograde
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 →Buster Keaton at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Buster Keaton's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Buster Keaton was born on October 4, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Buster Keaton's birth date, October 4, 1895, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Buster’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Buster Keaton's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Buster Keaton combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Buster’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Aries 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
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Buster’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto0.4° to 1.1° orb
Buster’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.5° to 0.7° orb
Buster’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.8° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Buster’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 14°34′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°27′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 22°03′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°18′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
Buster’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Buster’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
Buster’s family here
One relative of Buster Keaton also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Buster
Other screenwriters
- Robert E. Sherwood1896
- Lillian Gish1893
- Louis Bromfield1896
- Thomas Mitchell1892
- E. B. White1899
- Paul Green1894
Born in United States
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- Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsAmerican novelist
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More charts like Buster’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Johann DeisenhoferGerman scientist
- Clinton DavissonAmerican physicist
- Jody WilliamsAmerican teacher and aid worker
Born in Goat years
- J. Carrol NaishAmerican actor
- EjaeSouth Korean-American singer and songwriter (born 1991)
- Newt GingrichAmerican politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Christoph Waltz1956
- Dakota Johnson1989
- Alicia Silverstone1976
- Melissa Benoist1988
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jeremy ChinnAmerican football player
- Ifeatu MelifonwuAmerican football cornerback
- Alontae TaylorAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Libra Goat charts
- Denise CoatesEnglish businesswoman
- Gail MillerAmerican businesswoman
- Nithin Kamath
- Doris LessingBritish novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer (born 1991)
- Curtis StoneAustralian chef
- John StamosAmerican actor
- Chase StokesAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Emma MyersAmerican actress (born 2002)
- Julien AlfredSaint Lucian sprinter (born 2001)
- Jason DupasquierSwiss motorcycle racer
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Buster’s cards
Computed from October 4, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Buster’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q103949 (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 Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Buster Keaton at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Buster Keaton.
Quick answers about Buster Keaton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Buster Keaton?
- Buster Keaton was a Libra: born October 4, 1895, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Buster Keaton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1895 birth.
- How tall was Buster Keaton?
- Buster Keaton was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Buster Keaton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Buster Keaton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Buster Keaton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Buster Keaton's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
