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Gary Sinise

Gary Sinise (born March 17, 1955, Blue Island, United States), aged 71, is an American actor. Sinise's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Presidential Citizens Medal.

Gary Sinise’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Gary Sinise’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 1955, 34,433 American boys and 87 girls were registered Gary — 12th among boys and 1,084th 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against 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

4 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film came in 1996, when Gary Sinise was 41.

Study took Gary Sinise to Illinois State University.

Gary Sinise was 25 when the work began in 1980.

On the family side, Gary Sinise was married Moira Harris.

On Wikipedia the categories read CableACE Award winners, American bass guitarists and Guitarists from Illinois.

Mark Boone Junior shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Illinois State University
Instruments
guitar and electric bass guitar
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film (1996) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1998)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
Working from
1980
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
73

What the chart says

Gary, according to the stars

Core essence

Gary feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Gary is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Gary is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Gary needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Gary wants to be loved

Gary wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Gary be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Gary creates

How Gary makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gary creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Gary 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Gary is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Gary is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Gary

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gary

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Gary

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gary

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

PracticalVisionary
Gary

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gary

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Gary Sinise

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Blue Island 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 Blue Island that night

Computed for 41.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Blue Island at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Blue Island sits at 41.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Blue Island on any night.

The Moon, 37% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

How unusual Gary's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Sun · Grand trine · T-square onto Venus

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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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Gary Sinise's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Gary Sinise was born on March 17, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Gary Sinise's birth date, March 17, 1955, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Gary’s chart

Gary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.1° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.6° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.9° orbSun in Pisces · 26°22′☉26°Moon in Capricorn · 8°00′☽8°Mercury in Aquarius · 29°51′☿29°Venus in Aquarius · 15°00′♀14°Mars in Taurus · 13°26′♂13°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°53′♃19°Saturn in Scorpio · 20°57′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Cancer · 23°41′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Libra · 27°40′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 24°51′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.1° orb

    Gary’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.3° to 1.8° orb

    Gary’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb

    Gary’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.9° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 3°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 15°07′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 27°44′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 17°32′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°42′ (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 Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 1.4°
  • Ceres trine Mars 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 2.4°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.5°

Gary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Gary’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Sun · Neptune, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°

Born the same day as Gary

Mark Boone Junior was born on March 17, 1955 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.7°N, the sky above Blue Island stops at −48.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Gary’s cards

Computed from March 17, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180272 (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 U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gary Sinise at Wikipedia, garysinise.com, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Sinise.

Quick answers about Gary Sinise’s chart

How old is Gary Sinise?
Gary Sinise is 71 years old, born March 17, 1955 in Blue Island, United States.
What zodiac sign is Gary Sinise?
Gary Sinise is a Pisces: born March 17, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Gary Sinise's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1955 birth.
What is Gary Sinise's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Gary Sinise's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Gary Sinise's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gary Sinise's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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