Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (born May 22, 1907, Dorking, United Kingdom; died 1989), was an English actor and director. Olivier is best remembered for Richard III, Marathon Man and Wuthering Heights. Olivier's honours include Order of Merit, Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Laurence Olivier’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Goat, with 
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How common is the name Laurence in the U.S.?
#1747
US rank in 2025
~40,215
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Laurence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Laurence, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Laurence is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Laurence needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Laurence creates
How Laurence makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Laurence 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: Laurence is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Laurence is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Laurence 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 Laurence's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Taurus or Gemini Sun
Laurence Olivier was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Laurence Olivier was born on May 22, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Laurence Olivier's birth date, May 22, 1907, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Laurence’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Laurence Olivier's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
Laurence’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Laurence Olivier, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Virgo 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.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.0° to 6.8° orb
Laurence’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Laurence’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.3° to 3.4° orb
Laurence’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.3° to 1.5° orb
Laurence’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.4° orb
Laurence’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 2.9° orb
Laurence’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
Laurence’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.4° to 5.6° orb
Laurence’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.9° orb
Laurence’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
Laurence’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Laurence’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Laurence making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 8°07′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Laurence is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 19°39′ (moves 0.50° 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. Laurence is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 15°05′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Laurence feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Laurence guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 Mars 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.7°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.9°
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°).
Laurence’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Laurence is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Laurence’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Laurence Olivier, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Laurence’s family here
2 relatives of Laurence Olivier also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Laurence’s cards
Every card is computed from May 22, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Laurence Olivier, 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
Laurence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55245, 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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laurence Olivier 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.
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Quick answers about Laurence Olivier’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Laurence Olivier?
- Laurence Olivier was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Laurence Olivier's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1907 birth.
- What time was Laurence Olivier 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 was Laurence Olivier's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 22, 1907 birth date.
- What was Laurence Olivier's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 22, 1907 birth date.
- Where was Laurence Olivier's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Laurence Olivier's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
