Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille (born August 12, 1881, Ashfield, United States; died 1959), was an American film director, producer and actor. DeMille's honours include Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and Academy Honorary Award.
Cecil B. DeMille’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Cecil
Cecil B. DeMille’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Cecil in the U.S.?
#1486
US rank in 2025
~114,676
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
Cecil ranked 268th among boys and 420th among girls in 1881, the year of this birth, with 35 American boys and 16 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cecil’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cecil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Cecil apart
Erwin Schrödinger (1887) and George Soros (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Cecil, according to the stars
Core essence
Cecil is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Cecil is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Cecil wants to be loved
Cecil wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Cecil gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Cecil creates
How Cecil makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Cecil creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Cecil is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Cecil is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Cecil scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Cecil's birth date. Working below.
Where Cecil sits
Six lines
Cecil’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Cecil B. DeMille
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ashfield 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 Ashfield that night
Computed for 42.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ashfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ashfield on any night.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 86% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Cecil's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Cecil B. DeMille's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1881, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Cecil B. DeMille was born on August 12, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Cecil B. DeMille's birth date, August 12, 1881, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Cecil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cecil B. DeMille's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Cecil B. DeMille combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Cecil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Pisces or 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
stableSaturntrineUranus0.3° orb
Cecil’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars2.4° to 3.2° orb
Cecil’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.8° to 4.4° orb
Cecil’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.9° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Cecil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 10°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 18°52′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°16′ (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 sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.2°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron square Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Cecil’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto
Configurations in Cecil’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on August 12
- Erwin Schrödinger1887
- George Soros1930
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Bijan RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jameson WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Trey McBrideAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Leo Snake charts
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Other Steadfast Guardians
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- Clifton WebbAmerican actor, singer and dancer
- Walter ScharfAmerican composer and arranger
Famous people with Life Path 2
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Cecil’s cards
Computed from August 12, 1881. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cecil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q72267 (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 Albert Witzel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cecil B. DeMille at Wikipedia, cecilbdemille.com, 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 Cecil B. DeMille.
Quick answers about Cecil B. DeMille’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Cecil B. DeMille?
- Cecil B. DeMille was a Leo: born August 12, 1881, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Cecil B. DeMille's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1881 birth.
- What was Cecil B. DeMille's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Cecil B. DeMille's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Cecil B. DeMille's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Cecil B. DeMille's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
