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Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish (born October 14, 1893, Springfield, United States; died 1993), was an American actor, actress, motion picture producers and director, screenwriter. Gish's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame and AFI Life Achievement Award.

Lillian Gish’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Lillian Gish’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#57

US rank in 2025

~476,457

Americans share it since 1880

1920

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,193 American girls and 9 boys named Lillian in 1893: 20th among girls and 739th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lillian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

Lillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Lillian apart

Usher (1978) and Ralph Lauren (1939) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Lillian, according to the stars

Core essence

Lillian makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Lillian is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Lillian is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Lillian needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Lillian wants to be loved

Lillian wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Lillian and watch them fall for you again.

How Lillian creates

How Lillian makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Lillian builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Lillian is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lillian is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Lillian fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Lillian's birth date. Working below.

Where Lillian sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lillian

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lillian

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Lillian

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lillian

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

PracticalVisionary
Lillian

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lillian

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Springfield 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 Springfield that night

Computed for 39.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Springfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 15.9° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

Springfield sits at 39.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 24% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.

How unusual Lillian's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · No Earth planets · A leaning bowl

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

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Lillian Gish's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Lillian Gish was born on October 14, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Lillian Gish's birth date, October 14, 1893, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Lillian’s chart

Lillian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.2° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.5° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.6° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.6° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.7° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 5.1° orbSun in Libra · 21°35′☉21°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°58′☽15°Mercury in Scorpio · 7°40′☿7°Venus in Sagittarius · 2°55′♀2°Mars in Libra · 7°58′♂7°Jupiter in Gemini · 0°26′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Libra · 16°31′♄16°Uranus in Scorpio · 9°51′♅9°Neptune in Gemini · 13°21′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Gemini · 10°36′ · retrograde♇℞10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.5° to 2.9° orb

    Lillian’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.9° to 3.1° orb

    Lillian’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.0° orb

    Lillian’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.6° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.0° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 6.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.2° to 11.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 15°15′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 28°54′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 22°18′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 5°03′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.0°
  • Eros trine Sun 0.7°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.5°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.9°

Lillian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Lillian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°

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

Lillian’s cards

Computed from October 14, 1893. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104183 (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 Bain News Service; Uploaded by Calliopejen; Edited by jjron., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lillian Gish 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 Lillian Gish.

Quick answers about Lillian Gish’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lillian Gish?
Lillian Gish was a Libra: born October 14, 1893, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Lillian Gish's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1893 birth.
What was Lillian Gish's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Lillian Gish's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lillian Gish's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lillian Gish's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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