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Embeth Davidtz

Embeth Davidtz (born August 11, 1965, Lafayette, United States), aged 61, is an American actress.

Embeth Davidtz’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Embeth Davidtz’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

What Embeth’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

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

Embeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Embeth apart

The schooling ran through The Glen High School and Rhodes University.

Embeth Davidtz was 24 when the work began in 1989.

On Wikipedia the categories read American emigrants to South Africa, South African people of French descent and Rhodes University alumni.

Viola Davis shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
The Glen High School and Rhodes University
Working from
1989
Citizenship
United States and South Africa
Languages
English and Afrikaans
Wikipedia editions
35

What the chart says

Embeth, according to the stars

Core essence

Embeth is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Embeth 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Embeth 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 Embeth 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 Embeth wants to be loved

Embeth wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Embeth and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Embeth creates

How Embeth makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Embeth creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Embeth 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Embeth is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Embeth fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Embeth's birth date. Working below.

Where Embeth sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Embeth

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Embeth

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Embeth

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Embeth

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

PracticalVisionary
Embeth

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Embeth

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 Embeth Davidtz

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

Computed for 40.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lafayette was Eltanin, in Draco, 78.3° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

Lafayette sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lafayette on any night.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Embeth's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Neptune

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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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Embeth Davidtz's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Embeth Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Embeth Davidtz's birth date, August 11, 1965, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Embeth’s chart

Embeth’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.1° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.6° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.1° orbSun in Leo · 18°48′☉18°Moon in Aquarius · 11°47′☽11°Mercury in Leo · 26°04′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Virgo · 20°36′♀20°Mars in Libra · 24°31′♂24°Jupiter in Gemini · 24°26′♃24°Saturn in Pisces · 15°42′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Virgo · 13°33′♅13°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°16′♆17°Pluto in Virgo · 15°07′♇15°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Embeth’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Embeth’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.2° orb

    Embeth’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.0° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.2° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.6° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.3° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°13′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 23°03′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.0°
  • Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.5°
  • Eros opposition Venus 2.4°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.8°

Embeth’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Embeth’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°

Born the same day as Embeth

Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Lafayette, at 40.4°N, nothing below −49.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Embeth’s cards

Computed from August 11, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Embeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260622 (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 Fileman67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Embeth Davidtz at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Embeth Davidtz.

Quick answers about Embeth Davidtz’s chart

How old is Embeth Davidtz?
Embeth Davidtz is 61 years old, born August 11, 1965 in Lafayette, United States.
What zodiac sign is Embeth Davidtz?
Embeth Davidtz is a Leo: born August 11, 1965, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Embeth Davidtz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 11, 1965 birth.
How tall is Embeth Davidtz?
Embeth Davidtz is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Embeth Davidtz's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Embeth Davidtz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Embeth Davidtz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Embeth Davidtz's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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