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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Kirk
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
The SSA recorded 38 American boys named Kirk in 1916: 1,051st for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kirk’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on K (2) and closes on K (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kirk’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Kirk apart
Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Kirk sits
Six lines
Kirk’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Kirk Douglas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam that night
Computed for 42.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Amsterdam at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 3.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Amsterdam sits at 42.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
How unusual Kirk's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°50′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 25°39′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Kirk’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Kirk’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.5°
Kirk’s family here
One relative of Kirk Douglas also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Alfred BesterAmerican author
- Brandon SandersonAmerican fantasy writer (born 1975)
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Born in Dragon years
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- Lawrence H. GipsonAmerican writer
- Richard HofstadterAmerican historian and public intellectual
Also born on December 9
- Grace Hopper1906
- Simon Helberg1980
- Shin Yu-na2003
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- Kara DioGuardi1970
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Frank ConniffAmerican journalist
- Barbara StrauchAmerican writer
- Robert ColesAmerican psychiatrist
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
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Famous people with Life Path 2
- Wes BentleyAmerican actor
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Kirk’s cards
Computed from December 9, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kirk’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104027 (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 Kirk Douglas at Wikipedia, 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Kirk Douglas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
