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Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy (born June 7, 1909, London, United Kingdom; died 1994), was a British actress. Tandy's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and Academy Award for Best Actress.

Jessica Tandy’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Jessica Tandy’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#665

US rank in 2025

~1,054,307

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

The SSA recorded 18 American girls named Jessica in 1909: 980th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jessica’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Jessica’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, 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 Jessica apart

The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play came in 1978, when Jessica Tandy was 69.

Jessica Tandy was taught at Dame Alice Owen's School.

Jessica Tandy was 17 when the work began in 1926.

Cause of death is recorded as ovarian cancer.

The family line: married Jack Hawkins and Hume Cronyn and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Jessica Tandy under Actors from the London Borough of Hackney, People educated at Dame Alice Owen's School and Deaths from ovarian cancer in Connecticut.

Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Dame Alice Owen's School
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actress (1990), Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1978) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1988)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Working from
1926
Cause of death
ovarian cancer
Citizenship
United States and United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
63

What the chart says

Jessica, according to the stars

Core essence

Jessica is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jessica needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Jessica wants to be loved

Jessica wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jessica like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Jessica creates

How Jessica makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Jessica creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Jessica is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jessica is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Jessica slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Jessica's birth date. Working below.

Where Jessica sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jessica

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jessica

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jessica

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jessica

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

PracticalVisionary
Jessica

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jessica

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jessica Tandy

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

The name and the places

Born in
London, United Kingdom

The death is recorded at Easton, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region in 1994.

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

How unusual Jessica's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Saturn

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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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Jessica Tandy's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Jessica Tandy was born on June 7, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Jessica Tandy's birth date, June 7, 1909, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Jessica’s chart

Jessica’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.2° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.7° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.7° orbSun in Gemini · 16°04′☉16°Moon in Capricorn · 28°49′☽28°Mercury in Gemini · 26°51′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Gemini · 26°42′♀26°Mars in Pisces · 7°40′♂7°Jupiter in Virgo · 6°30′♃6°Saturn in Aries · 20°26′♄20°Uranus in Capricorn · 20°23′ · retrograde♅℞20°Neptune in Cancer · 15°40′♆15°Pluto in Gemini · 25°06′♇25°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Jessica’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Jessica’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.9° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn3.9° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.6° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 1.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 6.3° to 20.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°10′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 26°57′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 28°18′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 13°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.9°

Jessica’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune3 pts

    disposes Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jessica’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°

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Jessica’s cards

Computed from June 7, 1909. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jessica’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182104 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jessica Tandy 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 Jessica Tandy.

Quick answers about Jessica Tandy’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jessica Tandy?
Jessica Tandy was a Gemini: born June 7, 1909, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Jessica Tandy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1909 birth.
What was Jessica Tandy's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Jessica Tandy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jessica Tandy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jessica Tandy's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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