Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (born October 10, 1900, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1993), was an American actress. Hayes's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Award for Best Actress and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Helen Hayes’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Helen
Helen Hayes’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Helen in the U.S.?
#462
US rank in 2025
~1,027,307
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 6,342 American girls and 18 boys named Helen in 1900: 2nd among girls and 591st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Helen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Helen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Helen apart
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Helen, according to the stars
Core essence
Helen makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Helen is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Helen is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Helen needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Helen wants to be loved
Helen wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Helen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Helen creates
How Helen makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Helen creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Helen 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Helen 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Helen fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Helen's birth date. Working below.
Where Helen sits
Six lines
Helen’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Dedicate a star to Helen Hayes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 15.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 91% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Helen's chart is
Chart pattern score
18 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Helen Hayes's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Helen Hayes was born on October 10, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Helen Hayes's birth date, October 10, 1900, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Helen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Helen Hayes' date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Helen Hayes combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Helen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Taurus 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
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.4° orb
Helen’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto0.2° to 1.2° orb
Helen’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Helen’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineUranus1.3° to 1.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.0° to 6.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.9° to 8.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Helen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 20°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 23°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 4°52′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.5°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.6°
Helen’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Helen’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.7°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Helen’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Linda LavinAmerican actress and singer
- Bert KaempfertGerman orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger and composer
- Daniel MasseyEnglish actor and performer
Born in Rat years
- Yoo Jae-sukSouth Korean comedian, presenter
- Nikki GlaserAmerican comedian
- Reed HastingsAmerican entrepreneur and education philanthropist
Also born on October 10
- Gavin Newsom1967
- Marina Diamandis1985
- Brett Favre1969
- Mario Lopez1973
- Bradley Whitford1959
- Chris Penn1965
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Steve FeinbergAmerican businessman
- Timur TurlovRussian-born Kazakhstani entrepreneur and businessman (born 1987)
- Pansy HoHong Kong businesswoman
Other Libra Rat charts
- Janice McNairAmerican businesswoman and NFL team owner
- EminemAmerican rapper, record producer and actor
- Avril LavigneCanadian singer
- Gwyneth PaltrowAmerican actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Manny VillarFilipino businessman; President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2006 to 2008
- Bruce KovnerAmerican billionaire
- Martin LorentzonSwedish entrepreneur
- Pyotr AvenRussian businessman, politician and economist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Myles BryantAmerican football defensive back
- Khyiris TongaAmerican football defensive tackle
- Tyler AllgeierAmerican football player
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Helen’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1900. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Helen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213302 (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 Toronto Star, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Helen Hayes 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 Helen Hayes.
Quick answers about Helen Hayes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Helen Hayes?
- Helen Hayes was a Libra: born October 10, 1900, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Helen Hayes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1900 birth.
- What was Helen Hayes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Helen Hayes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Helen Hayes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Helen Hayes's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
