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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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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.
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Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
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Gene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gene Roddenberry, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces 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.
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
Gene’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
Gene’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.3° orb
Gene’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.8° to 7.0° orb
Gene’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 ℞Aries 13°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Gene may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo or Virgo during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Gene is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 27°27′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Gene is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Gene is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°34′ (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.
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron square Venus 2.5°
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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gene is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gene Roddenberry, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from August 19, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gene Roddenberry, 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 Q191716, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- 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 time was Gene Roddenberry 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.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 19, 1921 birth date.
- What was Gene Roddenberry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 19, 1921 birth date.
- 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.
