Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born April 28, 1878, Philadelphia, United States; died 1954), was an American actor, director and screenwriter. Barrymore's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lionel Barrymore’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Lionel
Lionel Barrymore’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lionel in the U.S.?
#659
US rank in 2025
~33,833
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
The earliest American count for Lionel is 1880, 2 years on: 718th, 8 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lionel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lionel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Lionel apart
The Academy Award for Best Actor came in 1931, when Lionel Barrymore was 53.
The schooling ran through Episcopal Academy.
Lionel Barrymore was 15 when the work began in 1893.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Calvary Cemetery as the resting place.
Lionel Barrymore was born to Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore and married Doris Rankin and Irene Fenwick.
On Wikipedia the categories read Barrymore family, Artists from Pennsylvania and American printmakers.
Penélope Cruz (1974) and Kurt Gödel (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Episcopal Academy
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1931)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1893
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Calvary Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Lionel, according to the stars
Core essence
Lionel is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Lionel is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Lionel wants to be loved
Lionel wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Lionel, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Lionel creates
How Lionel makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Lionel creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Lionel is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Lionel is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lionel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Lionel's birth date. Working below.
Where Lionel sits
Six lines
Lionel’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Lionel Barrymore
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 77.0° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 11% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
The death is recorded at Van Nuys, Los Angeles in 1954.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lionel Barrymore: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lionel's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Taurus · 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.
Score your own chart →Lionel Barrymore at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Lionel Barrymore's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1878, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerLeads by moving.
Lionel Barrymore was born on April 28, 1878, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Lionel Barrymore's birth date, April 28, 1878, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Lionel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lionel Barrymore's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lionel Barrymore combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Lionel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.1° orb
Lionel’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb
Lionel’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 1.4° orb
Lionel’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquarePluto0.7° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Lionel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°21′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 9°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 13°45′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°12′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 22°22′ (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 conjunction Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.9°
Lionel’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Lionel’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Mars 2.0°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Lionel’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- James MasonBritish actor
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
Born in Tiger years
- Cole StrangeAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Calais CampbellAmerican football player (born 1986)
- Ben BredesonAmerican football player (born 1998)
Also born on April 28
- Penélope Cruz1974
- Kurt Gödel1906
- Jessica Alba1981
- Diego Simeone1970
- Melanie Martinez1995
- Ferruccio Lamborghini1916
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Shaun TanAustralian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker (born 1974)
- Wang DuluChinese wuxia author, creator of Crane Iron Pentalogy series
- James GunnAmerican science fiction author
Other Taurus Tiger charts
- Charles SimicSerbian born American poet
- Manning MarableAmerican professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
- Vermont C. RoysterAmerican writer
- Alexander ZemlianichenkoRussian photojournalist
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Richard KinderAmerican businessman
- Mochtar RiadyIndonesian businessman and financier
- Lee Jae-hyeonSouth Korean businessman
- Barry DillerAmerican businessman (born 1942)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- David BurtkaAmerican actor and professional chef
- Bobbi Kristina BrownAmerican television personality, daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
- Cruz Beckhamson of David and Victoria Beckham
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Lionel’s cards
Computed from April 28, 1878. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lionel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295593 (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 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lionel Barrymore at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lionel Barrymore.
Quick answers about Lionel Barrymore’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lionel Barrymore?
- Lionel Barrymore was a Taurus: born April 28, 1878, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Lionel Barrymore's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1878 birth.
- How tall was Lionel Barrymore?
- Lionel Barrymore was 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Lionel Barrymore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lionel Barrymore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lionel Barrymore's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lionel Barrymore's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
