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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Laura
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
Laura ranked 14th among girls and 1,210th among boys in 1964, the year of this birth, with 18,967 American girls and 41 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Laura’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, 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 Laura apart
Laura Poitras took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, at 43.
The classrooms behind this chart: The New School.
The working life starts in 1998, at 34.
Wikipedia's editors put Laura Poitras under The Intercept people, Artists from Boston and Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners.
Shakira (1977) and Ayn Rand (1905) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- The New School
- Awards
- EFF Award (2013), Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film (2015) and Carl von Ossietzky Medal (2014)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- Working from
- 1998
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
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. Working below.
Where Laura sits
Six lines
Laura’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Laura Poitras
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 87.0° up.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 73% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boston, United States
- Lives in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Laura Poitras's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Laura Poitras: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Laura's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Pluto · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Libra 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
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
stableSunsextileJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 12°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°26′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 19°14′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°05′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Laura’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Laura’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.4°
More people like Laura
Other screenwriters
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Yann Martel1963
- Andrey Zvyagintsev1964
- Russell T Davies1963
- Russell Crowe1964
- Lisa Ann Walter1963
Born in United States
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- Donna TarttAmerican writer
- Laura LinneyAmerican actress
- Gwynne ShotwellAmerican business executive
- Mark KellyAmerican politician, astronaut, and naval officer
- Jeff BezosAmerican business magnate
More charts like Laura’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Giovanni ManuTongan-born Canadian player of American football (born 2001)
- Tony JeffersonAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Bud DupreeAmerican football player (born 1993)
Born in Rabbit years
- Oscar HandlinU.S. historian
- Sara GanimAmerican journalist
- Herman WoukAmerican writer
Also born on February 2
- Shakira1977
- Ayn Rand1905
- Gerard Piqué1987
- Farrah Fawcett1947
- Gemma Arterton1986
- John Cornyn1952
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Charles LeclercMonegasque racing driver
- Jessica PegulaUS American tennis player
- Johan ManzambiSwiss footballer
Other Aquarius Rabbit charts
- Laura LinneyAmerican actress
- Brian HaleyAmerican actor and comedian
- Ronald ColmanBritish actor
- Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)
Other Gilded Guardians
- Carlos Sainz Jr.Spanish racing driver
- Elena RybakinaKazakhstani tennis player
- Siena AgudongAmerican actress
- Chloe MoriondoAmerican singer-songwriter and YouTuber
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Chandra WilsonAmerican actress and director
- Braunwyn Windham-BurkeAmerican restaurateur, philanthropist, author, actress, television personality, activist, editor-in-chief
- Mike WhiteAmerican writer, actor and director
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Laura’s cards
Computed from February 2, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Laura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6499321 (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 Katy Scoggin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laura Poitras at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Laura Poitras's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Laura Poitras's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
