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Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn (born July 18, 1911, London, Canada; died 2003), was a Canadian-American actor. Cronyn's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Officer of the Order of Canada and Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Hume Cronyn’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Hume Cronyn’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What Hume’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

5

Soul Urge · freedom

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on H (8) and closes on E (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

Hume’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Hume apart

The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play came in 1964, when Hume Cronyn was 53.

Hume Cronyn was taught at Ridley College and McGill University.

Hume Cronyn was 23 when the work began in 1934.

Cause of death is recorded as prostate cancer.

The family line: born to Hume Cronyn, married Jessica Tandy and Susan Cooper and raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from prostate cancer in Connecticut, Male actors from London, Ontario and Officers of the Order of Canada.

Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Ridley College, McGill University and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Awards
Canada's Walk of Fame (1999), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1994) and National Medal of Arts (1990)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1934
Cause of death
prostate cancer
Citizenship
United States and Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
31

What the chart says

Hume, according to the stars

Core essence

Hume feels the room before entering it. The core of Hume is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Hume, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Hume runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Hume needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Hume wants to be loved

Hume 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 Hume and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Hume creates

How Hume 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. Hume 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: Hume 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Hume is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Hume leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Hume is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Hume's birth date. Working below.

Where Hume sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hume

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hume

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Hume

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hume

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

PracticalVisionary
Hume

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hume

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hume Cronyn

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

Hume’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 75° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over London that night

Computed for 42.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.0° above the horizon in Draco.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

London sits at 43.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.

The Moon, 52% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
London, Canada

The death is recorded at Fairfield, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region in 2003.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hume Cronyn: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Hume's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Hume Cronyn at a glance

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Hume Cronyn's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Hume Cronyn was born on July 18, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Hume Cronyn's birth date, July 18, 1911, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Hume’s chart

Hume’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.5° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.5° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Cancer · 24°56′☉24°Moon in Aries · 18°23′☽18°Mercury in Leo · 10°35′☿10°Venus in Virgo · 9°54′♀9°Mars in Taurus · 2°01′♂2°Jupiter in Scorpio · 5°02′♃5°Saturn in Taurus · 18°25′♄18°Uranus in Capricorn · 27°28′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Cancer · 21°26′♆21°Pluto in Gemini · 28°06′♇28°

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

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Hume’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.3° orb

    Hume’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Hume’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.0° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto3.6° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.2° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.7° to 6.4° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.3° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.0° to 13.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°23′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 25°11′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 6°34′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 15°22′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.3°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.9°

Hume’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Hume’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 0.0°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.7°

Hume’s family here

One relative of Hume Cronyn also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Hume’s cards

Computed from July 18, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hume’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q395205 (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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hume Cronyn at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hume Cronyn.

Quick answers about Hume Cronyn’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hume Cronyn?
Hume Cronyn was a Cancer: born July 18, 1911, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Hume Cronyn's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1911 birth.
How tall was Hume Cronyn?
Hume Cronyn was 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Hume Cronyn's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Hume Cronyn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Hume Cronyn's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hume Cronyn's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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