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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born November 9, 1914, Vienna, Austria, 19:30; died 2000), was a model, musician and film producer. Lamarr is best remembered for The Strange Woman, Algiers and Samson and Delilah. Lamarr's honours include National Inventors Hall of Fame, EFF Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hedy Lamarr’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Hedy Lamarr’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#12381

US rank in 2025

~2,316

Americans share it since 1915

1942

its peak year

US records hold Hedy from 1915 onward, though not for 1914 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1942 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hedy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7).

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

Hedy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Hedy apart

Carl Sagan (1934) and Luiz Felipe Scolari (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States and Austria
Languages
English and German

What the chart says

Hedy, according to the stars

Core essence

Hedy does not do surface. The core of Hedy 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 Hedy is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Hedy needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Hedy needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Hedy wants to be loved

Hedy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Hedy and watch them fall for you again.

How Hedy creates

How Hedy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Hedy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Hedy is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hedy 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 Hedy 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 Hedy's birth date. Working below.

Where Hedy sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hedy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hedy

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

PrivateExpressive
Hedy

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hedy

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

PracticalVisionary
Hedy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hedy

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Hedy Lamarr

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

Hedy’s birth-sky starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 74.6° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 29.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Vienna at 19:30, Hedy Lamarr’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Vienna that night

Computed for 48.21°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Vienna at the birth hour: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 15.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

At 48.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 30° below the horizon, Moon down and 63% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Vienna, Austria

The death is recorded at Orlando, Orange County in 2000.

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What Hedy's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微 in 子

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 4/6

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Five planets retrograde · 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.

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Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Hedy Lamarr's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Hedy Lamarr was born on November 9, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Hedy Lamarr's birth date, November 9, 1914, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Hedy’s chart

Hedy’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.7° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.3° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 16°31′ · house 5☉16°Moon in Leo · 2°04′ · house 2☽2°Mercury in Scorpio · 11°20′ · house 5 · retrograde☿℞11°Venus in Sagittarius · 12°09′ · house 6 · retrograde♀℞12°Mars in Scorpio · 28°48′ · house 5♂28°Jupiter in Aquarius · 14°02′ · house 8♃14°Saturn in Cancer · 1°45′ · house 1 · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Aquarius · 7°54′ · house 8♅7°Neptune in Leo · 0°27′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Cancer · 1°58′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞1°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 9°37′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 9°37′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 10°27′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 10°27′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.2° orb

    Hedy’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 1.6° orb

    Hedy’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb

    Hedy’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • VenussextileJupiterseparating · 1.9° orb

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 2.7° orb

  • MoontrineMarsseparating · 3.3° orb

  • MercurysquareUranusapplying · 3.4° orb

  • VenussextileUranusapplying · 4.2° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 5.2° orb

  • MoonoppositionUranusapplying · 5.8° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.1° orb

  • UranusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°28′ · House 9

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 20°10′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 20°10′ · House 9

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 1°09′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°50′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Moon 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.5°

Hedy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☽ Moon8 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Hedy’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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Moon semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
  • Moon semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°

Hedy’s houses

Hedy’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Leo, house 2Saturn, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Scorpio, house 5Moon, Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 5emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 6emptyhome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 1Sun, Mercury, Marscreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 8Venuswork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 1emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Aquarius, house 8Jupiter, Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Leo, house 2emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Scorpio, house 5emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 5emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Hedy’s cards

Computed from November 9, 1914. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hedy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49034 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Employee(s) of MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hedy Lamarr at Wikipedia, hedylamarr.com, 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 Hedy Lamarr.

Quick answers about Hedy Lamarr’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hedy Lamarr?
Hedy Lamarr was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1914, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What was Hedy Lamarr's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1914 birth.
What time was Hedy Lamarr born?
19:30 local time in Vienna, Austria, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What was Hedy Lamarr's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 19:30 birth time in Vienna, Austria (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What was Hedy Lamarr's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Hedy Lamarr's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Hedy Lamarr's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hedy Lamarr's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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