Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill (born August 2, 1915, Hartford, United States; died 1990), was a Film and television character actor from the United States.
Gary Merrill’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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Gary Merrill’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Gary in the U.S.?
#1073
US rank in 2025
~905,438
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gary, according to the stars
Core essence
Gary is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gary is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Gary is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Gary needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Gary wants to be loved
Gary wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Gary gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Gary creates
How Gary makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Gary creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Gary is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Gary is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Gary scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Gary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gary sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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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.
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Gary Merrill's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 2, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Gary Merrill was born on August 2, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Gary Merrill's birth date, August 2, 1915, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Gary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gary Merrill's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Gary Merrill combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Gary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gary Merrill, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Taurus 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.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Gary’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.5° to 2.4° orb
Gary’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.7° orb
Gary’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
Gary’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
Gary’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 4.7° orb
Gary’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
Gary’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
Gary’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarstrineUranus4.7° to 5.4° orb
Gary’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
Gary’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Gary’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°06′ (moves 0.03° 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 Gary absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°30′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Gary is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 9°32′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Gary is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLeo 24°39′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Gary at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Gary that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 sextile Sun 0.2°
- Eros square Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.8°
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°).
Gary’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gary is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Gary’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 Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
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.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gary Merrill, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Gary’s family here
One relative of Gary Merrill also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Gary’s cards
Every card is computed from August 2, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gary Merrill, 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
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q562339, 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 PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Merrill 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gary Merrill.
Quick answers about Gary Merrill’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gary Merrill?
- Gary Merrill was a Leo: born August 2, 1915, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- What was Gary Merrill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 2, 1915 birth.
- What time was Gary Merrill 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.
- What was Gary Merrill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 2, 1915 birth date.
- What was Gary Merrill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 2, 1915 birth date.
- Where was Gary Merrill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gary Merrill's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
