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George Kelly

George Kelly (born January 16, 1887, Philadelphia, United States; died 1974), was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. Kelly's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

George Kelly’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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George Kelly’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

In 1887, 4,284 American boys and 34 girls were registered George — 4th among boys and 369th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What George’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.

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

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The record

What sets George apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1926, when George Kelly was 39.

The record gives disease as the cause, and Westminster Cemetery as the resting place.

The family line: born to Mary Costello and John Henry Kelly.

On Wikipedia the categories read American military personnel of World War I, Gay dramatists and playwrights and Kelly family.

Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1926)
Cause of death
disease
Buried at
Westminster Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
15

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of George is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How George wants to be loved

George wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let George be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How George creates

How George makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. George creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: George is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. George is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. George goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
George

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

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

PrivateExpressive
George

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

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

PracticalVisionary
George

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to George Kelly

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

George’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 38.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Capella, in Auriga, 82.6° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Philadelphia on any night.

The Moon, 45% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Philadelphia, United States

The death is recorded at Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County in 1974.

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

How unusual George's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Uranus · No Fire planets

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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George Kelly at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

George Kelly's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

George Kelly was born on January 16, 1887, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

George Kelly's birth date, January 16, 1887, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.7° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 5.4° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.5° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 26°19′☉26°Moon in Libra · 27°11′☽27°Mercury in Capricorn · 13°07′☿13°Venus in Aquarius · 6°57′♀6°Mars in Aquarius · 18°23′♂18°Jupiter in Scorpio · 4°07′♃4°Saturn in Cancer · 18°28′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Libra · 12°29′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Taurus · 25°07′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Gemini · 2°15′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    George’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb

    George’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.2° to 3.4° orb

    George’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.6° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 6.2° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus5.5° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.1° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 19°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 19°11′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo or Libra during this date

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 7°21′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.3°
  • Eros trine Pluto 2.5°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in George’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars quincunx Saturn 0.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.9°

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George’s cards

Computed from January 16, 1887. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q913719 (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 No photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same George Kelly at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Kelly.

Quick answers about George Kelly’s chart

What zodiac sign was George Kelly?
George Kelly was a Capricorn: born January 16, 1887, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was George Kelly's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1887 birth.
What was George Kelly's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was George Kelly's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was George Kelly's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was George Kelly's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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