Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne (born December 20, 1898, Louisville, United States; died 1990), was an American actress and singer. Dunne's honours include Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Kennedy Center Honors and Laetare Medal.
Irene Dunne’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dog, with 
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Irene Dunne’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Irene in the U.S.?
#651
US rank in 2025
~356,812
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Irene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Irene, according to the stars
Core essence
Irene is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Irene is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Irene wants to be loved
Irene 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 Irene and watch them fall for you again.
How Irene creates
How Irene makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Irene creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Irene is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Irene is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Irene 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 Irene's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Irene Dunne in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Irene Dunne's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 20, 1898, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Dog
Earth DogGuards the gate all night.
Irene Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Irene Dunne's birth date, December 20, 1898, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Irene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Irene Dunne's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, 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.
- Irene Dunne combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Irene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Irene Dunne, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 4.0° orb
Irene’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.8° to 3.3° orb
Irene’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Irene’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineUranus2.4° to 2.7° orb
Irene’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Irene’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.5° to 3.8° orb
Irene’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
Irene’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineMars5.8° to 5.9° orb
Irene’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Irene’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Irene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 6°31′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Irene building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLibra 24°31′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Irene is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosPisces 8°40′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Irene is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°25′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Irene is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Irene guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Irene’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Irene is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Irene’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, Saturn, UranusThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Irene Dunne, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Irene’s cards
Every card is computed from December 20, 1898, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Irene Dunne, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Irene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230099, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Irene Dunne at Wikipedia, irenedunneguild.org, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Irene Dunne.
Quick answers about Irene Dunne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Irene Dunne?
- Irene Dunne was a Sagittarius: born December 20, 1898, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog.
- What was Irene Dunne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 20, 1898 birth.
- What time was Irene Dunne born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Irene Dunne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 20, 1898 birth date.
- What was Irene Dunne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 20, 1898 birth date.
- Where was Irene Dunne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Irene Dunne's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
