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Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder (born June 11, 1933, Milwaukee, United States; died 2016), was an American actor. Wilder's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Clarence Derwent Awards and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Gene Wilder’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Gene Wilder’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

In 1933, 2,780 American boys and 87 girls were registered Gene — 66th among boys and 698th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gene’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Gene apart

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1975, when Gene Wilder was 42.

The schooling ran through Washington High School and HB Studio.

Gene Wilder was 28 when the work began in 1961.

Cause of death is recorded as Alzheimer's disease.

Gene Wilder was married Gilda Radner.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in Connecticut, Comedians from Milwaukee and American satirists.

Peter Dinklage (1969) and Claire Holt (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Washington High School, HB Studio and Black-Foxe Military Institute
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1975) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (2003)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1961
Cause of death
Alzheimer's disease
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
101

What the chart says

Gene, according to the stars

Core essence

Gene is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Gene needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Gene needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Gene needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Gene creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Gene is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

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.

Where Gene sits

Six lines

Gene’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gene

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gene

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

PrivateExpressive
Gene

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gene

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gene

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gene

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Gene Wilder

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milwaukee on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Gene’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Milwaukee that night

Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Milwaukee was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 82.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

Milwaukee sits at 43.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 80% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Milwaukee, United States

The death is recorded at Stamford, Western Connecticut Planning Region in 2016.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gene Wilder: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Gene's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Gene Wilder's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 11, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Gene Wilder was born on June 11, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Gene Wilder's birth date, June 11, 1933, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Gene’s chart

Gene’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 2.9° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.2° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Gemini · 20°17′☉20°Moon in Aquarius · 9°13′☽9°Mercury in Cancer · 6°02′☿6°Venus in Cancer · 3°53′♀3°Mars in Virgo · 17°22′♂17°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°48′♃14°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°11′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Aries · 26°21′♅26°Neptune in Virgo · 7°33′♆7°Pluto in Cancer · 22°07′♇22°

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

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.6° to 2.5° orb

    Gene’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.5° orb

    Gene’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.4° to 2.7° orb

    Gene’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareMars2.7° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune3.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.5° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 4.5° to 17.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Gene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 0°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 11°11′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 12°10′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 19°34′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°09′ (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 Jupiter 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.2°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.5°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 2.6°

Gene’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Gene’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.7°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.4°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°

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Gene’s cards

Computed from June 11, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q191966 (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 Warner Brothers/Tandem Production, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gene Wilder at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Wilder.

Quick answers about Gene Wilder’s chart

What zodiac sign was Gene Wilder?
Gene Wilder was a Gemini: born June 11, 1933, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Gene Wilder's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 11, 1933 birth.
What was Gene Wilder's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Gene Wilder's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Gene Wilder's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Gene Wilder's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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