Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson (born March 27, 1899, Chicago, United States; died 1983), was an American actress. Swanson's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Gloria Swanson’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Gloria
Gloria Swanson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gloria in the U.S.?
#655
US rank in 2025
~417,018
Americans share it since 1881
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1899, Gloria came 1,317th, carried by 7 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gloria’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on G (7) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gloria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Gloria apart
Gloria Swanson took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama in 1951, at 52.
Lake View High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1914, at 15.
Cause of death is recorded as cardiovascular disease; the grave is at Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest Columbarium.
Gloria Swanson was born to Adelaide Klanowski and Joseph T. Swanson, married Herbert K. Somborn and William N. Davey and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Gloria Swanson: American expatriates in Portugal, Actresses from Chicago and Activists from California.
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845) and Mariah Carey (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lake View High School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1951)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1914
- Cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- Buried at
- Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest Columbarium
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 90
What the chart says
Gloria, according to the stars
Core essence
Gloria leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Gloria is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Gloria cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Gloria needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Gloria wants to be loved
Gloria 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 Gloria be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Gloria creates
How Gloria makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Gloria builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Gloria is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Gloria is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Gloria 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 Gloria's birth date. Working below.
Where Gloria sits
Six lines
Gloria’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Gloria Swanson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Weill Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan in 1983.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gloria Swanson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gloria's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth 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.
Score your own chart →Gloria Swanson at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Gloria Swanson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 27, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Gloria Swanson was born on March 27, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Gloria Swanson's birth date, March 27, 1899, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Gloria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gloria Swanson's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Gloria Swanson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Gloria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Libra 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.2° to 0.7° orb
Gloria’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.3° to 1.5° orb
Gloria’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus0.6° to 1.6° orb
Gloria’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.0° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.5° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.9° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Gloria’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 13°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 9°37′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 20°31′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 13°56′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
Gloria’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Gloria’s chart
Yod onto Mars · Venus, Saturn, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
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- Wilhelm Röntgen1845
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Gloria’s cards
Computed from March 27, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gloria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229232 (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 RKO Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gloria Swanson 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 Gloria Swanson.
Quick answers about Gloria Swanson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gloria Swanson?
- Gloria Swanson was an Aries: born March 27, 1899, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Gloria Swanson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 27, 1899 birth.
- How tall was Gloria Swanson?
- Gloria Swanson was 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Gloria Swanson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gloria Swanson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gloria Swanson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gloria Swanson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
