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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Emma Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922, Grand Rapids, United States, 06:00; died 1969), was an American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian. Notable films include The Wizard of Oz, Judgment at Nuremberg and P.S. I Love You. Garland's honours include Grammy Awards, Grammy Hall of Fame and Tony Awards.

Judy Garland’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Judy Garland’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

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

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

#1874

US rank in 2025

~384,073

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Judy ranked 460th in 1922, the year of this birth, with 223 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Judy’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Emma Ethel Gumm, not the name they published under.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

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

Judy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1922, 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 Judy apart

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) and Saul Bellow (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Judy, according to the stars

Core essence

Judy 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. Judy needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Judy is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Judy needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Judy wants to be loved

Judy wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Judy gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Judy creates

How Judy 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. Judy 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: Judy 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Judy 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Judy has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Judy's birth date. Working below.

Where Judy sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Judy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Judy

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

PrivateExpressive
Judy

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Judy

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

PracticalVisionary
Judy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Judy

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Grand Rapids at 06:00, Judy Garland’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Grand Rapids that night

Computed for 47.24°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Grand Rapids was Deneb, in Cygnus, 76.1° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

Grand Rapids sits at 47.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −42.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Grand Rapids on any night.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat -5° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Emma Ethel Gumm
Known as
Judy Garland
Born in
Grand Rapids, United States
Lived in
Lancaster · Grand Rapids

Wikidata records Lancaster and Grand Rapids as Judy Garland's home, Grand Rapids among them.

The death is recorded at Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1969.

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What Judy's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機, The Debater 巨門 in 卯

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Outer world

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Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/5

Sacral authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Uranus · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Judy Garland's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Water Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Judy Garland was born on June 10, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Judy Garland's birth date, June 10, 1922, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Judy’s chart

Judy’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.2° orbSun in Gemini · 18°46′ · house 1☉18°Moon in Sagittarius · 28°37′ · house 7☽28°Mercury in Cancer · 0°09′ · house 2 · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Cancer · 18°58′ · house 2♀18°Mars in Sagittarius · 18°56′ · house 7 · retrograde♂℞18°Jupiter in Libra · 9°00′ · house 5♃8°Saturn in Libra · 0°51′ · house 5♄0°Uranus in Pisces · 13°34′ · house 10♅13°Neptune in Leo · 13°46′ · house 3♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 9°02′ · house 2♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCGem 27°38′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSgr 27°38′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 27°17′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 27°17′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantGemini
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 0.0° orb

    Judy’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • SunoppositionMarsapplying · 0.2° orb

    Judy’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.

  • MercurysquareSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb

    Judy’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 1.5° orb

  • MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb

  • UranustrinePlutoapplying · 4.5° orb

  • JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb

  • SunsquareUranusseparating · 5.2° orb

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 5.2° orb

  • VenustrineUranusseparating · 5.4° orb

  • MarssquareUranusapplying · 5.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 16°47′ · House 11

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 26°02′ · House 5

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 17°59′ · House 3

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 6°42′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°24′ · House 10

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Sun 0.8°
  • Eros trine Mars 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Ascendant 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Moon 2.6°

Judy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Judy’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Mars, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Moon, Mercury, 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.

  • Venus quincunx Mars 0.0°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°

Judy’s houses

Judy’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1GeminiMercury in Cancer, house 2Sunself, body, how you arrive
2CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 7Mercury, Venus, Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3LeoSun in Gemini, house 1Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4VirgoMercury in Cancer, house 2emptyhome, family, roots
5LibraVenus in Cancer, house 2Jupiter, Saturncreativity, romance, play
6ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 5Moon, Marspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AquariusUranus in Pisces, house 10emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10PiscesNeptune in Leo, house 3Uranuscareer, reputation, public life
11AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 2emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Judy’s family here

2 relatives of Judy Garland also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Judy’s cards

Computed from June 10, 1922. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Judy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11637 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Judy Garland at Wikipedia, judygarland.com, 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 Judy Garland.

Quick answers about Judy Garland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Judy Garland?
Judy Garland was a Gemini: born June 10, 1922, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What was Judy Garland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 10, 1922 birth.
What time was Judy Garland born?
06:00 local time in Grand Rapids, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Judy Garland's rising sign?
Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 06:00 birth time in Grand Rapids, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Judy Garland?
Judy Garland was 1.51 m (4 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Judy Garland's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Judy Garland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Judy Garland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Judy Garland's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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