George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland; died 1950), was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist. Shaw is best remembered for Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan and Pygmalion. Shaw's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
George Bernard Shaw’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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George Bernard Shaw’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
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What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of George 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.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore George openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. George creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: George is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. George 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. George fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from George's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
George Bernard Shaw's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1856, 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.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
George Bernard Shaw's birth date, July 26, 1856, 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 George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Bernard Shaw's date-only chart is Venus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- George Bernard Shaw combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for George Bernard Shaw, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
George’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.3° to 2.2° orb
George’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.7° orb
George’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb
George’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
George’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° to 2.1° orb
George’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.3° to 4.6° orb
George’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranussextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
George’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb
George’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
George’s core identity grinds against their drive.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
George’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 ℞Aquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has George making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 13°25′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. George is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 2°05′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has George wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 26°27′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. George is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of George that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.0°
- Eros square Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.3°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.7°
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°).
George’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. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: George 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 George’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Bernard Shaw, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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George’s cards
Every card is computed from July 26, 1856, 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 Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for George Bernard Shaw, 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
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19185, 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 Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Bernard Shaw?
- George Bernard Shaw was a Leo: born July 26, 1856, 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 Fire Dragon.
- What was George Bernard Shaw's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1856 birth.
- What time was George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 26, 1856 birth date.
- What was George Bernard Shaw's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 26, 1856 birth date.
- Where was George Bernard Shaw's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Bernard Shaw's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
