Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born May 10, 1899, Omaha, United States; died 1987), was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. Astaire's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Kennedy Center Honors and Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
Fred Astaire’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Fred
Fred Astaire’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Fred in the U.S.?
#1936
US rank in 2025
~345,684
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,182 American boys and 10 girls named Fred in 1899: 16th among boys and 1,053rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The record
What sets Fred apart
The Academy Honorary Award came in 1949, when Fred Astaire was 50.
The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.
Fred Astaire was born to Ann Astaire and Fritz Austerlitz, married Robyn Smith and Phyllis Livingston Potter and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Fred Astaire under American percussionists, AFI Life Achievement Award recipients and Academy Honorary Award recipients.
Linda Evangelista (1965) and Miuccia Prada (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Grammy Hall of Fame (2008), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1950) and AFI Life Achievement Award (1981)
- Nominated for
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
- Working from
- 1904
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 102
What the chart says
Fred, according to the stars
Core essence
Fred is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Fred is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Fred wants to be loved
Fred wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Fred creates
How Fred makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Fred creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Fred is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Fred is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Fred fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Fred's birth date. Working below.
Where Fred sits
Six lines
Fred’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Fred Astaire
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Omaha 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 Omaha that night
Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Omaha at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
Omaha sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Omaha, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Fred Astaire: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Fred's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets
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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Fred Astaire's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 10, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Fred Astaire was born on May 10, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Fred Astaire's birth date, May 10, 1899, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Fred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Astaire's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Fred Astaire combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Fred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Fred’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Fred’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.7° to 1.7° orb
Fred’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextilePluto1.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.0° to 5.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.3° to 7.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.8° to 7.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto7.9° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Fred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 11°21′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 0°45′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 11°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°11′ (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 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.9°
Fred’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Fred’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
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More charts like Fred’s
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- Jessica AlbaAmerican actress
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Born in Pig years
- Karim LópezMexican basketball player (born 2007)
- Kyle KuzmaAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Jae'Sean TateAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
Also born on May 10
- Linda Evangelista1965
- Miuccia Prada1948
- Aya Nakamura1995
- Thomas Lipton1848
- Nadia Ferreira1999
- Odette Annable1985
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Carol Ann DuffyScottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
- Dionne BrandCanadian writer, poet
- Soc ClayAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
Other Taurus Pig charts
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- Duke EllingtonAmerican jazz pianist and composer
- Louise S. Phillipspoet laureate of Kentucky
- Irvin KershnerAmerican film director
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Liam HemsworthAustralian actor
- Bryce Dallas HowardAmerican actress and filmmaker
- Will PoulterBritish actor
- Lily-Rose DeppFrench-American actress
Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Fred’s cards
Computed from May 10, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q100937 (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 Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Astaire 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 Fred Astaire.
Quick answers about Fred Astaire’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fred Astaire?
- Fred Astaire was a Taurus: born May 10, 1899, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Fred Astaire's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1899 birth.
- How tall was Fred Astaire?
- Fred Astaire was 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Fred Astaire's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Fred Astaire's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Fred Astaire'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 Fred Astaire's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
