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Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner (born April 29, 1923, Philadelphia, United States; died 2010), was an American film director. Kershner's honours include Saturn Award for Best Director and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Irvin Kershner’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Irvin Kershner’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#1937

US rank in 2025

~39,997

Americans share it since 1880

1923

its peak year

In 1923, 817 American boys and 9 girls were registered Irvin — 173rd among boys and 3,487th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Irvin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on I (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Irvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Irvin apart

Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Irvin, according to the stars

Core essence

Irvin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Irvin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Irvin cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Irvin needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Irvin wants to be loved

Irvin wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Irvin creates

How Irvin makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Irvin creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Irvin 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Irvin 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Irvin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Irvin's birth date. Working below.

Where Irvin sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Irvin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Irvin

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

PrivateExpressive
Irvin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Irvin

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Irvin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Irvin

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 Irvin Kershner

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

Irvin’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 87.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 38.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

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.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.

How unusual Irvin's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet

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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Irvin Kershner in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Irvin Kershner's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Irvin Kershner was born on April 29, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Irvin Kershner's birth date, April 29, 1923, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Irvin’s chart

Irvin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.5° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 5.6° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.6° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.8° orbSun in Taurus · 8°19′☉8°Moon in Libra · 20°47′☽20°Mercury in Taurus · 27°52′☿27°Venus in Aries · 3°42′♀3°Mars in Gemini · 9°12′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 14°50′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Libra · 15°09′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Pisces · 16°24′♅16°Neptune in Leo · 15°23′♆15°Pluto in Cancer · 9°21′♇9°

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Irvin’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Irvin’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.6° to 1.5° orb

    Irvin’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.5° to 1.7° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.1° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter6.0° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 4.5° to 19.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 18°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 10°06′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 23°30′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 4°05′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Mars 0.9°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°

Irvin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Irvin’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Saturn, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.3°

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Irvin’s cards

Computed from April 29, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Irvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q119348 (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 The Conmunity - Pop Culture Geek from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Irvin Kershner 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 Irvin Kershner.

Quick answers about Irvin Kershner’s chart

What zodiac sign was Irvin Kershner?
Irvin Kershner was a Taurus: born April 29, 1923, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Irvin Kershner's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1923 birth.
What was Irvin Kershner's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Irvin Kershner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Irvin Kershner's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Irvin Kershner's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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