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Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer (born December 13, 1929, Toronto, Canada; died 2021), was a Canadian actor. Plummer's honours include Companion of the Order of Canada, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Christopher Plummer’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Christopher Plummer’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Christopher in the U.S.?

#68

US rank in 2025

~2,079,103

Americans share it since 1880

1984

its peak year

Christopher ranked 337th in 1929, the year of this birth, with 273 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Christopher’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on C (3) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Christopher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Christopher apart

Christopher Plummer took the Theatre World Award in 1955, at 26.

University of Western Ontario and High School of Montreal shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1946, at 17.

Cause of death is recorded as falling from height.

The family line: born to Isabella Mary Abbott and John Orme Plummer, married Patricia Lewis and Tammy Grimes and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Christopher Plummer under Abbott family (Canada), Canadian expatriate male actors in the United Kingdom and Accidental deaths in Connecticut.

Taylor Swift (1989) and Jamie Foxx (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Western Ontario, High School of Montreal and McGill University
Awards
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2012), Canada's Walk of Fame (1998) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1977)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1946
Cause of death
falling from height
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
104

What the chart says

Christopher, according to the stars

Core essence

Christopher is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Christopher is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Christopher is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Christopher needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Christopher wants to be loved

Christopher 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 Christopher and watch them fall for you again.

How Christopher creates

How Christopher makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Christopher creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Christopher 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Christopher 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 Christopher leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Christopher has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Christopher's birth date. Working below.

Where Christopher sits

Six lines

Christopher’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Christopher

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Christopher

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Christopher

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Christopher

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Christopher

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Christopher

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Christopher Plummer

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night

Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Toronto at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Toronto, Canada

The death is recorded at Weston, Fairfield County in 2021.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Christopher Plummer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Christopher's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Neptune · 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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Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Christopher Plummer's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 13, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Christopher Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Christopher Plummer's birth date, December 13, 1929, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Christopher’s chart

Christopher’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.9° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.4° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 21°14′☉21°Moon in Taurus · 13°23′☽13°Mercury in Capricorn · 0°09′☿0°Venus in Sagittarius · 8°04′♀8°Mars in Sagittarius · 18°17′♂18°Jupiter in Gemini · 10°01′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Capricorn · 1°33′♄1°Uranus in Aries · 7°27′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Virgo · 3°34′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°05′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Christopher’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.7° to 2.1° orb

    Christopher’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.6° orb

    Christopher’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 2.8° to 16.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Christopher’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 9°54′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 28°48′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 3°33′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 23°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.4°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.8°

Christopher’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Christopher’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneAn 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.

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.1°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Christopher’s cards

Computed from December 13, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Christopher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190523 (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 GDC Graphics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Christopher Plummer 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 Christopher Plummer.

Quick answers about Christopher Plummer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Christopher Plummer?
Christopher Plummer was a Sagittarius: born December 13, 1929, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Christopher Plummer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 13, 1929 birth.
How tall was Christopher Plummer?
Christopher Plummer was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Christopher Plummer's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Christopher Plummer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Christopher Plummer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Christopher Plummer's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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