George Burns
George Burns (born January 20, 1896, New York City, United States; died 1996), was an American comedian, actor, writer and singer. Burns's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
George Burns’s zodiac sign was Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.How compatible are you with George Burns?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with George and watch them fall for you again.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. George creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: George is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. George is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. George has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from George's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
George Burns was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
George Burns was born on January 20, 1896, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
George Burns's birth date, January 20, 1896, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Burns' date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for George Burns, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 9° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
George’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.6° orb
George’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° to 1.1° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.8° to 3.2° orb
George’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
George’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
George’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
George’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.1° to 6.4° orb
George’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.9° orb
George’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.2° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 26°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. George is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°12′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. George is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 25°20′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. George is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaPisces 8°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has George needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. George is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 trine Uranus 0.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.1°
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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: George is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Burns, 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 January 20, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for George Burns, 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 Q344793, 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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Burns 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 Burns’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Burns?
- George Burns was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- What was George Burns's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1896 birth.
- What time was George Burns 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 Burns's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1896 birth date.
- What was George Burns's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1896 birth date.
- Where was George Burns's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Burns's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
