Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916, Amsterdam, United States; died 2020), was an American actor. Douglas is best remembered for Lust for Life, The Vikings and Spartacus. Douglas's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Golden Bear and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Kirk Douglas’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Kirk Douglas’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kirk in the U.S.?
#2551
US rank in 2025
~68,264
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Kirk’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kirk, according to the stars
Core essence
Kirk is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Kirk 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Kirk processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Kirk needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Kirk wants to be loved
Kirk wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kirk even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Kirk creates
How Kirk makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Kirk creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Kirk is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Kirk is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Kirk does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Kirk's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Kirk sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Kirk Douglas's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1916, 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.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Kirk Douglas was born on December 9, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Kirk Douglas's birth date, December 9, 1916, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Kirk’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kirk Douglas' date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Kirk Douglas combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Kirk’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kirk Douglas, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Gemini 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.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Kirk’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.6° orb
Kirk’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Kirk’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareUranus1.6° to 2.8° orb
Kirk’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
Kirk’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.3° orb
Kirk’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.7° orb
Kirk’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 1.3° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryoppositionPlutoorb from 7.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Kirk’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Kirk absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°50′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Kirk caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosVirgo 25°39′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Kirk is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Kirk is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Kirk is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Eros square Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.4°
- Ceres square Sun 1.5°
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°).
Kirk’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Kirk 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 Kirk’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kirk Douglas, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Kirk’s family here
One relative of Kirk Douglas also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Kirk’s cards
Every card is computed from December 9, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kirk Douglas, 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
Kirk’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104027, 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 photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kirk Douglas at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Kirk Douglas.
Quick answers about Kirk Douglas’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kirk Douglas?
- Kirk Douglas was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1916, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Kirk Douglas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1916 birth.
- What time was Kirk Douglas 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.
- How tall was Kirk Douglas?
- Kirk Douglas was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Kirk Douglas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the December 9, 1916 birth date.
- What was Kirk Douglas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 9, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Kirk Douglas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kirk Douglas's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
