Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly (born August 23, 1912, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1996), was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. Kelly's honours include Golden Bear, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program.
Gene Kelly’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Gene
How common is the name Gene in the U.S.?
#2238
US rank in 2025
~133,874
Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
The SSA recorded 187 American boys and 54 girls named Gene in 1912: 257th among boys and 681st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Gene apart
Kobe Bryant (1978) and River Phoenix (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gene, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Gene 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 Gene needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Gene wants to be loved
Gene wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gene and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gene creates
How Gene makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gene creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Gene is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Gene 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gene channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Gene's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Pittsburgh sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pittsburgh on any night.
The Moon, 88% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
How unusual Gene's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Uranus · 3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Sun
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 →The quick version
Leo or Virgo Sun
Gene Kelly was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Gene Kelly was born on August 23, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Gene Kelly's birth date, August 23, 1912, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Gene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gene Kelly's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Gene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Capricorn 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Gene’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoontrineVenus0.0° to 6.9° orb
Gene’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.0° to 1.6° orb
Gene’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.5° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.9° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 9°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°48′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 23°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 21°48′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mars 0.0°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.9°
Gene’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gene’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Saturn, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Sun, Pluto, UranusTwo 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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
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Gene’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1912. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73089 (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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gene Kelly 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 Gene Kelly.
Quick answers about Gene Kelly’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gene Kelly?
- Gene Kelly was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Gene Kelly's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1912 birth.
- How tall was Gene Kelly?
- Gene Kelly was 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Gene Kelly's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gene Kelly's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gene Kelly's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gene Kelly's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
