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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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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 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gloria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gloria sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gloria Swanson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Libra 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.
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
Gloria’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.5° orb
Gloria’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.5° orb
Gloria’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
Gloria’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.2° orb
Gloria’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.9° orb
Gloria’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 13°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Gloria building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 9°37′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Gloria is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosTaurus 20°31′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Gloria wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 13°56′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Gloria is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Gloria is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
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°).
Gloria’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gloria is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gloria’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gloria Swanson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gloria’s cards
Every card is computed from March 27, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gloria Swanson, 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
Gloria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229232, 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 RKO Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gloria Swanson 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- 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.
- What time was Gloria Swanson 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.
- 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 from the March 27, 1899 birth date.
- What was Gloria Swanson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 27, 1899 birth date.
- 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.
