Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born January 18, 1904, Bristol, United Kingdom; died 1986), was a British-American actor. Grant is best remembered for North by Northwest, Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story. Grant's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Academy Awards and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cary Grant’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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Cary Grant’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Cary in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~29,827
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Cary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Cary, according to the stars
Core essence
Cary is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Cary is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Cary needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Cary needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Cary wants to be loved
Cary wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Cary and watch them fall for you again.
How Cary creates
How Cary makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Cary creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Cary is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Cary is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Cary goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Cary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Cary sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Cary Grant's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Cary Grant was born on January 18, 1904, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Cary Grant's birth date, January 18, 1904, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Cary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cary Grant's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Cary Grant combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Cary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Cary Grant, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aquarius 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.
stableMarssextileUranus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Cary’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 3.5° orb
Cary’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
Cary’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.9° orb
Cary’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.6° orb
Cary’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.5° to 5.5° orb
Cary’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.3° orb
Cary’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
Cary’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb
Cary’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 3.7° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.2° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Cary’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°01′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Cary is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°39′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Cary is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 25°52′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Cary is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 4°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Cary at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Cary at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 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°).
Cary’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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Cary is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Cary’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Cary Grant, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Cary’s family here
One relative of Cary Grant also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Cary’s cards
Every card is computed from January 18, 1904, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Cary Grant, 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
Cary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83410, 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 Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01.jpg: RKO publicity photographer. derivative work: Crisco 1492 (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cary Grant at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Cary Grant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Cary Grant?
- Cary Grant was a Capricorn: born January 18, 1904, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit.
- What was Cary Grant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1904 birth.
- What time was Cary Grant 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.
- How tall was Cary Grant?
- Cary Grant was 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Cary Grant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 18, 1904 birth date.
- What was Cary Grant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 18, 1904 birth date.
- Where was Cary Grant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Cary Grant's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
