Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (born February 2, 1964, Boston, United States), aged 62, is an American documentary film director and producer (born 1964). Poitras's honours include Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Golden Lion and Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Laura Poitras’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.How compatible are you with Laura Poitras?
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Laura Poitras’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Laura’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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 cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Laura needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Laura creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Laura is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Laura sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Laura Poitras's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Laura Poitras was born on February 2, 1964, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Laura Poitras's birth date, February 2, 1964, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Laura’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Laura Poitras' date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Laura Poitras combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Laura’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Laura Poitras, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Libra 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.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.6° to 1.9° orb
Laura’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.7° to 1.3° orb
Laura’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Laura’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.3° to 2.1° orb
Laura’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb
Laura’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
Laura’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.3° orb
Laura’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.4° to 4.5° orb
Laura’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
Laura’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb
Laura’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
Laura’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.0° orb
Laura’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Laura’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 12°34′ (moves 0.06° 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 Laura absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°26′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Laura is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 19°14′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Laura is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°05′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Laura is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Laura leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres square Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.3°
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°).
Laura’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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Venus; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Laura is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Laura’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.
Stellium 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 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.- Yod onto Pluto · Mars, 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 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Laura Poitras, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Laura’s cards
Every card is computed from February 2, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Laura Poitras, 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
Laura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6499321, 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 Katy Scoggin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laura Poitras at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Laura Poitras.
Quick answers about Laura Poitras’s chart
- How old is Laura Poitras?
- Laura Poitras is 62 years old, born February 2, 1964 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Laura Poitras?
- Laura Poitras is an Aquarius: born February 2, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- What is Laura Poitras's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1964 birth.
- What time was Laura Poitras 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.
- What is Laura Poitras's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 2, 1964 birth date.
- What is Laura Poitras's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 2, 1964 birth date.
- Where is Laura Poitras'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 Poitras'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 Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
