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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with George
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.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1856 — the SSA series begins 24 years later. George opened it at 5th among boys and 312th among girls, 5,126 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets George apart
Carl Jung (1875) and Sandra Bullock (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 George Bernard Shaw
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dublin 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 Dublin that night
Computed for 53.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Dublin at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.5° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
At 53.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dublin at all: they sit past the −36.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 26% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
How unusual George'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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.3° to 4.6° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 13°25′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 2°05′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 26°27′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°08′ (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 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°
George’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in George’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.
- 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°
More people like George
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- Roald Hoffmann1937
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More charts like George’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Katherine BooAmerican journalist
- Olesya ShmagunRussian investigative journalist
- Bill MarimowAmerican investigative reporter
Born in Dragon years
- Darien PorterAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Nakobe DeanAmerican football linebacker
- Kyren WilliamsAmerican football running back
Also born on July 26
- Carl Jung1875
- Sandra Bullock1964
- Jacinda Ardern1980
- Mick Jagger1943
- Jason Statham1967
- John Howard1939
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Georg SoltiHungarian-British conductor
- Mstislav RostropovichSoviet and Russian cellist and conductor
- Joan SutherlandAustralian soprano
Other Leo Dragon charts
- Jerrick Reed IIAmerican football player
- Bobby Brown IIIAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Will PutnamAmerican football player (born 2000)
- ChaewonSouth Korean singer (born 2000)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Ty SimpkinsAmerican actor
- Jurriën TimberDutch association football player (born 2001)
- Markéta VondroušováCzech tennis player
- Trevor LawrenceAmerican football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Rudolf Ludwig MössbauerGerman nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
- James FranckGerman-American physicist
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
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George’s cards
Computed from July 26, 1856. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19185 (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.
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The same George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw.
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.
- 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 was George Bernard Shaw's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Bernard Shaw's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
