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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Gary
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
In 1915, 78 American boys and 6 girls were registered Gary — 660th among boys and 3,959th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, 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 Gary apart
Gary Merrill was taught at Bowdoin College.
Gary Merrill was 28 when the work began in 1943.
The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Pine Grove Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Gary Merrill was born to Hazel May Andrews Merrill and Benjamin Gary Merrill and married Bette Davis.
On Wikipedia the categories read Male actors from Maine, People from Falmouth, Maine and Deaths from lung cancer in Maine.
JD Vance (1984) and Isabel Allende (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bowdoin College
- Working from
- 1943
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Pine Grove Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 27
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. Working below.
Where Gary sits
Six lines
Gary’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 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.
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 Gary Merrill
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hartford 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 Hartford that night
Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Hartford sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hartford at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 48% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hartford, United States
The death is recorded at Falmouth, Cumberland County in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gary Merrill: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gary's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No Earth 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 →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Taurus 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
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
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 4.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°30′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 9°32′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 24°39′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Sun 0.2°
- Eros square Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.8°
Gary’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gary’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
Gary’s family here
One relative of Gary Merrill also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Gary
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on August 2
- JD Vance1984
- Isabel Allende1942
- Sam Worthington1976
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Other Leo Rabbit charts
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Peter ThielGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Gary’s cards
Computed from August 2, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q562339 (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 PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Merrill 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 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.
- 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 was Gary Merrill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gary Merrill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
