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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Cary
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.?
#3676
US rank in 2025
~29,827
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1904, Cary came 692nd among boys and 1,930th among girls, carried by 12 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Cary apart
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Cary sits
Six lines
Cary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Cary Grant
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bristol 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 Bristol that night
Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Bristol at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Bristol sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Cary's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°01′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°39′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 25°52′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 4°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°59′ (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 trine Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 3.0°
Cary’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Cary’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.3°
Cary’s family here
One relative of Cary Grant also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Cary
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- George Coulouris1903
- John Gielgud1904
- Gino Saltamerenda1902
- Ray Milland1907
- Kathryn McGuire1903
Born in United Kingdom
- W. H. AudenBritish-American poet
- John WilliamsEnglish actor
- John GielgudBritish actor and theatre director
- Charles LaughtonBritish-American actor
- John BetjemanEnglish poet, writer and broadcaster
- George CoulourisBritish actor
More charts like Cary’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Adolf WindausGerman chemist
- George MarshallAmerican army officer and statesman
- Brian David JosephsonWelsh physicist
Born in Rabbit years
- Ronald ColmanBritish actor
- Herbert RossAmerican film director
- Charles JarrottBritish film and television director
Also born on January 18
- Kevin Costner1955
- Paul Keating1944
- Jason Segel1980
- Jay Chou1979
- Jonathan Davis1971
- Emil Audero Mulyadi1997
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Jeremy PivenAmerican actor
- Sarah RamosAmerican actress
- Jack OsbourneBritish actor
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
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- William KennedyAmerican writer and journalist
- Austin C. WehrweinAmerican reporter
- Sam RaganAmerican poet
Other Gilded Diplomats
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Cary’s cards
Computed from January 18, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83410 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cary Grant.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Cary Grant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
