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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.How compatible are you with Gene Kelly?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Gene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Gene Kelly, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Capricorn 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.
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
Gene’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
Gene’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.6° orb
Gene’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
Gene’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
Gene’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.3° orb
Gene’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.5° orb
Gene’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
Gene’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto5.9° to 6.5° orb
Gene’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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 9°10′ (moves 0.05° 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 Gene absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°48′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Gene caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 23°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Gene is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 21°48′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Gene needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Gene at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 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°
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°).
Gene’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gene is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gene’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 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 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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gene Kelly, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gene’s cards
Every card is computed from August 23, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Gene Kelly, 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
Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73089, 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gene Kelly 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.
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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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- 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.
- What time was Gene Kelly 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.
- 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 from the August 23, 1912 birth date.
- What was Gene Kelly's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 23, 1912 birth date.
- 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.
