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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1907, Fred came 19th among boys and 1,438th among girls, carried by 1,371 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Fred’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

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 record

What sets Fred apart

Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Fred sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Fred

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fred

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Fred

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fred

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Fred

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fred

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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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.

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The sky over Rzeszów that night

Computed for 50.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Rzeszów at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.

Rzeszów sits at 50.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −40.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rzeszów on any night.

Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at full moon.

How unusual Fred's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart

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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Fred Zinnemann in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Try 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.

What Taurus means →

Fire Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Fred Zinnemann was born on April 29, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Can'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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Fred’s chart

Fred’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.6° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.3° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun in Taurus · 7°57′☉7°Moon in Scorpio · 24°10′☽24°Mercury in Aries · 14°40′☿14°Venus in Aries · 2°17′♀2°Mars in Capricorn · 11°41′♂11°Jupiter in Cancer · 6°40′♃6°Saturn in Pisces · 23°33′♄23°Uranus in Capricorn · 12°39′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Cancer · 10°15′♆10°Pluto in Gemini · 22°14′♇22°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto1.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars3.4° to 4.0° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.7° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 17°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 28°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 7°52′ (moves 0.52° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 7°50′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Fred’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Fred’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars quintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 1.1°

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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

Computed from April 29, 1907. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55420 (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 MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Fred Zinnemann at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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.
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.
What was Fred Zinnemann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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