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), Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Laurence
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
Of the names registered in 1907, Laurence came 230th among boys and 1,947th among girls, carried by 78 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Laurence’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Laurence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Laurence apart
Novak Djokovic (1987) and Naomi Campbell (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dorking 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 Dorking that night
Computed for 51.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Dorking was Alioth, in Ursa Major, 84.7° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dorking at all: they sit past the −38.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 73% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.
How unusual Laurence's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Pluto · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart
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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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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Virgo 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
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
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 8°07′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 19°39′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 15°05′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Laurence’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Laurence’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.
- 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°
Laurence’s family here
2 relatives of Laurence Olivier also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Also born on May 22
- Novak Djokovic1987
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Davon GodchauxAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Zach WoodAmerican football player
- Erik McCoyAmerican football player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Richard WilburAmerican poet
- Kenneth SilvermanAmerican biographer
- William Allen WhiteAmerican newspaper editor and Progressive leader
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Laurence’s cards
Computed from May 22, 1907. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Laurence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55245 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Laurence Olivier.
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.
- 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 was Laurence Olivier's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Laurence Olivier's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
