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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born December 8, 1911, New York City, United States; died 1976), was an American actor. Cobb's honours include Donaldson Awards and Golden Plate Award.

Lee J. Cobb’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Lee J. Cobb’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#727

US rank in 2025

~295,926

Americans share it since 1880

1951

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1911, Lee came 67th among boys and 245th among girls, carried by 646 American boys and 258 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lee’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5).

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

Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

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 1911, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Lee apart

Lee J. Cobb took the Golden Plate Award in 1960, at 49.

Training came by way of New York University.

The working life starts in 1934, at 23.

Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.

On the family side, Lee J. Cobb was married Helen Beverley and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lee J. Cobb: Members of the Progressive Party (United States, 1948), Male actors from the Bronx and Burials at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.

Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
New York University
Awards
Golden Plate Award (1960)
Nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1934
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
41

What the chart says

Lee, according to the stars

Core essence

Lee is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Lee is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Lee is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Lee needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Lee wants to be loved

Lee wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Lee gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Lee creates

How Lee makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Lee creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Lee is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Lee is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Lee is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Lee's birth date. Working below.

Where Lee sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lee

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lee

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Lee

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lee

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Lee

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lee

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon, 87% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1976.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lee J. Cobb: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Lee's chart is

Chart pattern score

81 / 100 · Rare

3 unaspected planets · Yod onto Pluto · T-square onto Venus

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Lee J. Cobb's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Lee J. Cobb was born on December 8, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Lee J. Cobb's birth date, December 8, 1911, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Lee’s chart

Lee’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.6° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.7° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Sagittarius · 15°30′☉15°Moon in Cancer · 22°08′☽22°Mercury in Capricorn · 6°22′☿6°Venus in Libra · 29°15′♀29°Mars in Taurus · 27°17′ · retrograde♂℞27°Jupiter in Scorpio · 29°37′♃29°Saturn in Taurus · 14°36′ · retrograde♄℞14°Uranus in Capricorn · 27°02′♅27°Neptune in Cancer · 23°20′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Gemini · 28°13′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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

  • stableMarstrineUranus0.1° to 0.4° orb

    Lee’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Lee’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Lee’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.5° to 2.7° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.7° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 2°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 3°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 12°52′ (moves 0.78° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 9°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Saturn 1.7°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.9°

Lee’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Lee’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, 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 Jupiter 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 2.0°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Lee’s cards

Computed from December 8, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q348351 (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.

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Quick answers about Lee J. Cobb’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lee J. Cobb?
Lee J. Cobb was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1911, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Lee J. Cobb's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1911 birth.
How tall was Lee J. Cobb?
Lee J. Cobb was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Lee J. Cobb's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Lee J. Cobb's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lee J. Cobb's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lee J. Cobb's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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