George Sanders
George Sanders (born July 3, 1906, Saint Petersburg, Russia; died 1972), was a British actor. Sanders's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
George Sanders’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with George
George Sanders’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
Of the names registered in 1906, George came 4th among boys and 668th among girls, carried by 4,201 American boys and 30 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
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 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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 1906, 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 George apart
George Sanders took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1951, at 45.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Bedales School.
The working life starts in 1929, at 23.
Cause of death is recorded as drug overdose.
George Sanders was married Zsa Zsa Gabor and Benita Hume.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for George Sanders: Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom, Male actors from Saint Petersburg and English basses.
Franz Kafka (1883) and Julian Assange (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Bedales School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1951)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1929
- Cause of death
- drug overdose
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George feels the room before entering it. The core of George is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for George, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. George 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: George is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means George does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Sanders
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint Petersburg 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 Saint Petersburg that night
Computed for 59.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Saint Petersburg was Edasich, in Draco, 88.8° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 60.0°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Saint Petersburg at all: they sit past the −30.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
The death is recorded at Castelldefels, Corporació Metropolitana de Barcelona in 1972.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Sanders: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
George Sanders's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 3, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
George Sanders was born on July 3, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
George Sanders's birth date, July 3, 1906, 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 Sanders' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- George Sanders combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
George’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.3° to 1.5° orb
George’s growth and depths act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 5.9° to 20.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 6.6° to 20.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 11°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°17′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°06′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 19°13′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
George’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.5°
More people like George
Other actors
- Dana Andrews1909
- Millard Mitchell1903
- Fred MacMurray1908
- Claudette Colbert1903
- Don Bradman1908
- George Coulouris1903
Born in Russia
- Martti AhtisaariPresident of Finland from 1994 to 2000
- Ivan BuninRussian writer and poet
- Valentina TereshkovaRussian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space
- Paul KarrerSwiss chemist
- Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space
- Boris PasternakRussian writer
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Also born on July 3
- Franz Kafka1883
- Julian Assange1971
- Tom Cruise1962
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- Andrea Barber1976
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
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- Kevin DotsonAmerican football offensive guard
- Tetairoa McMillanAmerican football player (born 2003)
Other Cancer Horse charts
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Other Steadfast Strategists
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- Jeremy ReavesAmerican football player (born 1996)
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- Jeshaun JonesAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Tytus HowardAmerican football player
- Elgton JenkinsAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Creed HumphreyAmerican football player (born 1999)
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
George’s cards
Computed from July 3, 1906. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
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
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296491 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Sanders 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 Sanders.
Quick answers about George Sanders’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Sanders?
- George Sanders was a Cancer: born July 3, 1906, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was George Sanders's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 3, 1906 birth.
- How tall was George Sanders?
- George Sanders was 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was George Sanders's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Sanders's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Sanders's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Sanders's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
