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Laura Linney

Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964, Manhattan, United States), aged 62, is an American actress. Linney's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Golden Globe Awards and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Laura Linney’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Laura Linney’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#379

US rank in 2025

~804,390

Americans share it since 1880

1964

its peak year

The SSA recorded 18,967 American girls and 41 boys named Laura in 1964: 14th among girls and 1,210th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Laura’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

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

Laura’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Laura apart

The Theatre World Award came in 1992, when Laura Linney was 28.

Laura Linney was taught at Northfield Mount Hermon School and Juilliard School.

Laura Linney was 28 when the work began in 1992.

On the family side, Laura Linney was born to Romulus Linney.

Wikipedia files Laura Linney under Actors from Franklin County, Massachusetts, Linney family and Actresses from Massachusetts.

Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Juilliard School and Northwestern University
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (2002), Golden Globe Awards (2009) and Theatre World Award (1992)
Nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Television Series Drama and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Working from
1992
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
57

What the chart says

Laura, according to the stars

Core essence

Laura is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Laura is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Laura feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Laura needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Laura wants to be loved

Laura wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Laura, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Laura creates

How Laura makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Laura builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Laura is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Laura is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Laura goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Laura's birth date. Working below.

Where Laura sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Laura

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Laura

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

PrivateExpressive
Laura

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Laura

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

PracticalVisionary
Laura

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Laura

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 Laura Linney

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

Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.5° above the horizon in Auriga.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 45% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Laura's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Pluto · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Laura Linney's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Laura Linney was born on February 5, 1964, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Laura Linney's birth date, February 5, 1964, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Laura’s chart

Laura’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 15°56′☉15°Moon in Scorpio · 17°52′☽17°Mercury in Capricorn · 22°53′☿22°Venus in Pisces · 23°48′♀23°Mars in Aquarius · 18°27′♂18°Jupiter in Aries · 15°34′♃15°Saturn in Aquarius · 24°26′♄24°Uranus in Virgo · 8°57′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°47′♆17°Pluto in Virgo · 13°36′ · retrograde♇℞13°

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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Laura’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.1° orb

    Laura’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 6.0° orb

    Laura’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.3° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 12°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°29′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 21°15′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.9°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.5°

Laura’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    disposes Venus; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Laura’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Pluto · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoTwo 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.2°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.3°

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Laura’s cards

Computed from February 5, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Laura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223281 (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 Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Laura Linney at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Laura Linney.

Quick answers about Laura Linney’s chart

How old is Laura Linney?
Laura Linney is 62 years old, born February 5, 1964 in Manhattan, United States.
What zodiac sign is Laura Linney?
Laura Linney is an Aquarius: born February 5, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Laura Linney's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1964 birth.
What is Laura Linney's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Laura Linney's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Laura Linney's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Laura Linney's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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