Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (born April 29, 1907, Rzeszów, Poland; died 1997), was an Austrian film director. Zinnemann is best remembered for Oklahoma!, The Seventh Cross and Julia. Zinnemann's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Fred Zinnemann’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Fred Zinnemann’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
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Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Fred is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Fred 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 Fred's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Fred 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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rzeszów on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Fred Zinnemann in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Fred Zinnemann's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Fred Zinnemann was born on April 29, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Fred Zinnemann's birth date, April 29, 1907, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Fred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Zinnemann's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Fred Zinnemann combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Fred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Fred Zinnemann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.1° orb
Fred’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb
Fred’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.3° to 2.8° orb
Fred’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb
Fred’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.3° orb
Fred’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
Fred’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars2.4° to 3.6° orb
Fred’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.4° orb
Fred’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
Fred’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb
Fred’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.7° to 5.2° orb
Fred’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb
Fred’s affections grind against their growth.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Fred’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Fred making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresGemini 28°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Fred feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 7°52′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Fred is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 7°50′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Fred feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Fred guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.0°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.1°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.4°
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°).
Fred’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Fred is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Fred’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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Neptune, MercuryAn 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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Fred Zinnemann, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Fred’s cards
Every card is computed from April 29, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Fred Zinnemann, 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
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55420, 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 MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Zinnemann at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Fred Zinnemann.
Quick answers about Fred Zinnemann’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fred Zinnemann?
- Fred Zinnemann was a Taurus: born April 29, 1907, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Fred Zinnemann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1907 birth.
- What time was Fred Zinnemann 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 Fred Zinnemann?
- Fred Zinnemann was 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Fred Zinnemann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 29, 1907 birth date.
- What was Fred Zinnemann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 29, 1907 birth date.
- Where was Fred Zinnemann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Fred Zinnemann's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
