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Grace Bumbry

Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937, St. Louis, United States; died 2023), was an American opera singer. Bumbry served as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Bumbry's honours include Kennedy Center Honors and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Grace Bumbry’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Grace Bumbry’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Grace in the U.S.?

#38

US rank in 2025

~536,340

Americans share it since 1880

2003

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1937, Grace came 94th among girls and 3,736th among boys, carried by 2,710 American girls and 5 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Grace’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

9

Soul Urge · meaning

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Grace’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

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 Grace apart

Victor Wembanyama (2004) and Rayssa Leal (2008) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Grace, according to the stars

Core essence

Grace is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Grace 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Grace 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 Grace 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 Grace wants to be loved

Grace 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 Grace be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Grace creates

How Grace makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Grace 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: Grace is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Grace is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Grace fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Grace's birth date. Working below.

Where Grace sits

Six lines

Grace’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Grace

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Grace

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Grace

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Grace

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

PracticalVisionary
Grace

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Grace

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 Grace Bumbry

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

Grace’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 87° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 74.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over St. Louis that night

Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkib stood nearest the zenith over St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.0° above the horizon in Perseus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from St. Louis at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 45% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.

How unusual Grace's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · No Fire planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Grace Bumbry's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 4, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Grace Bumbry was born on January 4, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Grace Bumbry's birth date, January 4, 1937, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Grace’s chart

Grace’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Mars · Trine, 1° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.3° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.5° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°00′☉13°Moon in Libra · 15°39′☽15°Mercury in Aquarius · 1°25′☿1°Venus in Aquarius · 28°24′♀28°Mars in Libra · 29°24′♂29°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°37′♃7°Saturn in Pisces · 17°38′♄17°Uranus in Taurus · 5°39′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Virgo · 18°55′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Cancer · 27°56′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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

  • stableVenustrineMars0.7° to 1.3° orb

    Grace’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.7° orb

    Grace’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Grace’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.8° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.8° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.3° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus6.0° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 19°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 8°53′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 6°59′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Neptune 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.3°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.7°

Grace’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

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

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Grace’s chart

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

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Grace’s cards

Computed from January 4, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Grace’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q451180 (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 U.S. federal government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Grace Bumbry at Wikipedia, gracebumbry.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Grace Bumbry.

Quick answers about Grace Bumbry’s chart

What zodiac sign was Grace Bumbry?
Grace Bumbry was a Capricorn: born January 4, 1937, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Grace Bumbry's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 4, 1937 birth.
What was Grace Bumbry's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Grace Bumbry's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Grace Bumbry's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Grace Bumbry's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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