Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born January 24, 1917, Hamden, United States; died 2012), was an American actor. Borgnine's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Ernest Borgnine’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Ernest Borgnine’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ernest in the U.S.?
#1040
US rank in 2025
~304,354
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ernest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Ernest, according to the stars
Core essence
Ernest is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ernest is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Ernest wants to be loved
Ernest wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ernest you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Ernest creates
How Ernest makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ernest creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ernest 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ernest is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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. Ernest 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 Ernest's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ernest sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Ernest Borgnine's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Ernest Borgnine was born on January 24, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Ernest Borgnine's birth date, January 24, 1917, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Ernest’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ernest Borgnine's date-only chart is Sun opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ernest Borgnine combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Ernest’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ernest Borgnine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.2° to 1.2° orb
Ernest’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.8° to 1.0° orb
Ernest’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.8° to 4.6° orb
Ernest’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.6° to 5.6° orb
Ernest’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Ernest’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.2° orb
Ernest’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° orb
Ernest’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.7° to 7.9° orb
Ernest’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 1.4° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 4.8° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ernest’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 23°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Ernest absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 21°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ernest caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 4°04′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ernest is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ernest is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Ernest is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Sun 0.1°
- Eros square Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Ernest’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Ernest is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Ernest’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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 onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ernest Borgnine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ernest’s family here
One relative of Ernest Borgnine also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Ernest’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ernest Borgnine, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Ernest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102551, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Milburn McCarty Public Relations. It was not uncommon for a network, program sponsor or studio to distribute publicity information through either an ad or publicity agency., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ernest Borgnine at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Ernest Borgnine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ernest Borgnine?
- Ernest Borgnine was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Ernest Borgnine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1917 birth.
- What time was Ernest Borgnine born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall was Ernest Borgnine?
- Ernest Borgnine was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Ernest Borgnine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1917 birth date.
- What was Ernest Borgnine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Ernest Borgnine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ernest Borgnine's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
