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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ernest
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
Ernest ranked 37th among boys and 2,233rd among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 5,055 American boys and 15 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ernest’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ernest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1916, 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 Ernest apart
Ernest Borgnine took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama in 1955, at 38.
Hillhouse High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1951, at 34.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney failure; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
On the family side, Ernest Borgnine was married Ethel Merman and Katy Jurado.
Wikipedia's editors put Ernest Borgnine under People from Hamden, Connecticut, Hillhouse High School alumni and Military personnel from Connecticut.
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hillhouse High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1956), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1956) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1955)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama
- Working from
- 1951
- Cause of death
- kidney failure
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 77
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. Working below.
Where Ernest sits
Six lines
Ernest’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 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.
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 Ernest Borgnine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamden 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 Hamden that night
Computed for 41.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Hamden at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.4°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 −48.6° 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 crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamden, United States
The death is recorded at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Grove in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ernest Borgnine: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ernest's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Jupiter
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars7.7° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 23°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 21°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 4°04′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ernest’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ernest’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.4°
Ernest’s family here
One relative of Ernest Borgnine also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in United States
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Born in Snake years
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- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Ernest’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ernest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102551 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ernest Borgnine.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Ernest Borgnine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
