Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939, Detroit, United States), aged 87, is an American actress. Tomlin's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and Special Tony Award.
Lily Tomlin’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Lily
Lily Tomlin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Lily in the U.S.?
#18
US rank in 2025
~189,789
Americans share it since 1880
2011
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1939, Lily came 518th, carried by 168 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lily’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lily’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Lily apart
Lily Tomlin took the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1972, at 33.
Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts and HB Studio shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1965, at 26.
The family line: married Jane Wagner.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lily Tomlin: Comedians from Detroit, American lesbian comedians and Arista Records artists.
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts, HB Studio and Cass Technical High School
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1986), Silver Bear for Best Actress (1977) and Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (1972)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1965
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Lily, according to the stars
Core essence
Lily notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Lily is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Lily runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Lily needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Lily wants to be loved
Lily wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Lily and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Lily creates
How Lily makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Lily 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: Lily 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Lily 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Lily 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 Lily's birth date. Working below.
Where Lily sits
Six lines
Lily’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Lily Tomlin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.3° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Detroit, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Lily Tomlin'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 Lily Tomlin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lily's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Lily Tomlin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Lily Tomlin was born on September 1, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Lily Tomlin's birth date, September 1, 1939, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Lily’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lily Tomlin's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air and Water.
- Lily Tomlin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Lily’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Aries 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 8.0° orb
Lily’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.1° to 1.5° orb
Lily’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Lily’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.6° to 6.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto7.6° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.8° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.
Lily’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 8°09′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 16°59′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°38′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.7°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.6°
Lily’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Lily’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
More people like Lily
Other screenwriters
- Burt Young1940
- Charles Fuller1939
- George Lazenby1939
- Hampton Fancher1938
- Peter Fonda1940
- Paul Gleason1939
Born in United States
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- Stephen Dunnpoet
- Carl DennisAmerican writer
- Paul GleasonAmerican actor
- Lee HartwellAmerican biologist
- Susan FlanneryAmerican actress
More charts like Lily’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Jennifer CoolidgeAmerican actress
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
- George LazenbyAustralian actor
Born in Rabbit years
- Samara JoyAmerican jazz singer
- Janja GarnbretSlovenian sport climber
- Princess Alexandra of HanoverMonegasque figure skater and princess
Also born on September 1
- Gloria Estefan1957
- Jungkook1997
- An Yu-jin2003
- Zendaya1996
- Romeo Beckham2002
- Tom Kaulitz1989
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Joseph OssaiNigeria-born American football player (born 2000)
- Kristian WelchAmerican football linebacker
- Garrett WilsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Virgo Rabbit charts
- Jaren Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
- Vasily AnisimovRussian businessman
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Huang RulunChinese billionaire businessman (born 1951)
Other Gilded Explorers
- Robert MitchumAmerican actor
- Ursula AndressSwiss actress
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Tarana BurkeAmerican civil rights activist
Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Lily’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lily’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229271 (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 U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lily Tomlin at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lily Tomlin.
Quick answers about Lily Tomlin’s chart
- How old is Lily Tomlin?
- Lily Tomlin is 87 years old, born September 1, 1939 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lily Tomlin?
- Lily Tomlin is a Virgo: born September 1, 1939, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Lily Tomlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1939 birth.
- What is Lily Tomlin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lily Tomlin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lily Tomlin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lily Tomlin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
