Gene Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry (born August 19, 1921, El Paso, United States; died 1991), was an American television screenwriter and producer. Roddenberry is best remembered for Dylan Hunt, USS Enterprise and Star Trek. Roddenberry's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Air Medal and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Gene Roddenberry’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Gene
Gene Roddenberry’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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
Of the names registered in 1921, Gene came 170th among boys and 523rd among girls, carried by 873 American boys and 183 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
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
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Gene apart
Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gene, according to the stars
Core essence
Gene is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gene 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, Gene is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Gene needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Gene wants to be loved
Gene 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. Gene gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Gene creates
How Gene makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Gene builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Gene is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Gene 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gene fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gene's birth date. Working below.
Where Gene sits
Six lines
Gene’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Gene Roddenberry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above El Paso 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 El Paso that night
Computed for 31.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at El Paso at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 1.5° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 78 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 31.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from El Paso at all: they sit past the −58.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Gene's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets · A leaning bowl
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 SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Gene Roddenberry's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Gene Roddenberry's birth date, August 19, 1921, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Gene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gene Roddenberry's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Gene Roddenberry combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Gene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces 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
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.7° orb
Gene’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 6.6° orb
Gene’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Gene’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.8° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.8° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 7.1° to 18.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryconjunctionNeptuneorb from 7.4° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 7.5° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Gene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo or Virgo during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 27°27′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron square Venus 2.5°
Gene’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Gene’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.4°
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Born in United States
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Also born on August 19
- Bill Clinton1946
- Coco Chanel1883
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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Other Leo Rooster charts
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- Rameshbabu PraggnanandhaaIndian chess player
- Ulrich TukurGerman actor and musician
- Mélissa Désormeaux-PoulinFrench Canadian actress
Other Evergreen Architects
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- Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary
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Famous people with Life Path 4
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Gene’s cards
Computed from August 19, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q191716 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gene Roddenberry 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 Roddenberry.
Quick answers about Gene Roddenberry’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gene Roddenberry?
- Gene Roddenberry was a Leo: born August 19, 1921, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1921 birth.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gene Roddenberry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
