Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman (born January 3, 1932, Austin, United States; died 2024), was an American actor. Coleman's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Mary Pickford Award.
Dabney Coleman’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Dabney
Dabney Coleman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Dabney in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~623
Americans share it since 1897
1973
its peak year
In 1932, 7 American boys were registered Dabney — 3,143rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dabney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on D (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dabney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Dabney apart
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and Greta Thunberg (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dabney, according to the stars
Core essence
Dabney is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dabney 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, Dabney feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Dabney needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Dabney wants to be loved
Dabney wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Dabney be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Dabney creates
How Dabney makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Dabney creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Dabney 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Dabney 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 Dabney leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Dabney does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Dabney's birth date. Working below.
Where Dabney sits
Six lines
Dabney’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Dabney Coleman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Austin 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 Austin that night
Computed for 30.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Austin at 9 p.m. that evening: Atik of Perseus, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Austin sits at 30.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −59.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Austin on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Dabney's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Dabney Coleman's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Dabney Coleman was born on January 3, 1932, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Dabney Coleman's birth date, January 3, 1932, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Dabney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dabney Coleman's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dabney Coleman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Dabney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.6° to 1.1° orb
Dabney’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
Dabney’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.7° to 2.9° orb
Dabney’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.1° to 5.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.6° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Dabney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°43′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 1°55′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 25°27′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.7°
Dabney’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Dabney’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.4°
More people like Dabney
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- Mike Nichols1931
- Walter Mercado1932
- Leslie Caron1931
- Pier Angeli1932
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- Elizabeth Taylor1932
Born in United States
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- John UpdikeAmerican novelist, poet
- Hamilton SmithAmerican microbiologist
- Clive DavisAmerican music executive
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- Johnny CashAmerican country singer
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- Chad JohnsonAmerican gridiron football player (born 1978)
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on January 3
- J. R. R. Tolkien1892
- Greta Thunberg2003
- Mel Gibson1956
- Jisoo1995
- Florence Pugh1996
- Gordon Moore1929
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Ron WydenAmerican politician and educator (born 1949)
- Angela LansburyBritish-American-Irish actress and singer
- Angie HarmonAmerican actress
Other Capricorn Goat charts
- Bob ShawIrish science fiction writer
- Kameron HurleyAmerican writer
- LL Cool JAmerican rapper and actor (born 1968)
- Marwane SaâdaneMoroccan association football player
Other Tidal Strategists
- John LynchIrish actor and novelist (born 1961)
- Brian DennehyAmerican actor
- Agnese NanoItalian actress
- Agnes MooreheadAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Peter S. BeagleAmerican writer
- Ted ElliottAmerican screenwriter (born 1961)
- Steven MoffatScottish television writer and producer
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Dabney’s cards
Computed from January 3, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dabney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q446717 (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 Aaron Rapoport, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dabney Coleman 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 Dabney Coleman.
Quick answers about Dabney Coleman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dabney Coleman?
- Dabney Coleman was a Capricorn: born January 3, 1932, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Dabney Coleman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1932 birth.
- What was Dabney Coleman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dabney Coleman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dabney Coleman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dabney Coleman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
