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Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly (born November 12, 1929, Philadelphia, United States, 05:31; died 1982), was an American actress and Princess consort of Monaco. Notable films include Rear Window, High Noon and Dial M for Murder. Kelly's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

Grace Kelly’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Grace Kelly’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1929, Grace came 54th among girls and 1,305th among boys, carried by 4,569 American girls and 30 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Grace’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Grace apart

Anne Hathaway (1982) and Nadia Comăneci (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States and Monaco
Languages
French and English

What the chart says

Grace, according to the stars

Core essence

Grace does not do surface. The core of Grace is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Grace is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Grace is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Grace needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Grace wants to be loved

Grace wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Grace gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Grace 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Grace runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Grace

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

PrivateExpressive
Grace

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Grace Kelly

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Read from the sky above Philadelphia at 05:31, Grace Kelly’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, at the documented birth time.

Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at the birth hour, 82.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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, 77% lit at waxing gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Philadelphia, United States

The death is recorded at Commune of Monaco, Monaco in 1982.

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What Grace's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞 in 申

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/3

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

3 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Grace Kelly's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Grace Kelly's birth date, November 12, 1929, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Grace’s chart

Grace’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.8° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.3° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 6.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 19°34′ · house 1☉19°Moon in Pisces · 21°51′ · house 5☽21°Mercury in Scorpio · 10°42′ · house 1☿10°Venus in Libra · 28°51′ · house 12♀28°Mars in Scorpio · 25°38′ · house 1♂25°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°06′ · house 8 · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Sagittarius · 28°06′ · house 2♄28°Uranus in Aries · 7°57′ · house 6 · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Virgo · 3°26′ · house 11♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°32′ · house 9 · retrograde♇℞19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 4°42′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 4°42′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 11°12′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 11°12′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SuntrinePlutoseparating · 0.0° orb

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

  • VenussextileSaturnseparating · 0.8° orb

    Grace’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • SuntrineMoonseparating · 2.3° orb

    Grace’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • MoontrinePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb

  • MoontrineMarsapplying · 3.8° orb

  • VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb

  • SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 6.1° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoseparating · 6.1° orb

  • MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°38′ · House 7

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 16°42′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 9°00′ · House 2

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 3°03′ · House 6

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°31′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Moon 2.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.6°

Grace’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars9 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Grace’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Moon, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Moon, Mars, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
  • Moon biquintile Venus 1.0°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.5°

Grace’s houses

Grace’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 9Sun, Mercury, Marsself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Gemini, house 8Saturnmoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 2emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Aries, house 6emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 11Mooncreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Scorpio, house 1Uranuswork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Libra, house 12emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 1Jupitershared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Pisces, house 5Plutobelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Scorpio, house 1emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 1Neptunefriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Libra, house 12Venusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Grace’s cards

Computed from November 12, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Grace’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3925 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Hans Peters for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Grace Kelly 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 Grace Kelly.

Quick answers about Grace Kelly’s chart

What zodiac sign was Grace Kelly?
Grace Kelly was a Scorpio: born November 12, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What was Grace Kelly's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 12, 1929 birth.
What time was Grace Kelly born?
05:31 local time in Philadelphia, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Grace Kelly's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 05:31 birth time in Philadelphia, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Grace Kelly?
Grace Kelly was 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Grace Kelly's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Grace Kelly's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Grace Kelly's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Grace Kelly's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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