Loretta Young
Loretta Young (born January 6, 1913, Salt Lake City, United States; died 2000), was an American actress. Young's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Loretta Young’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Loretta
Loretta Young’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Loretta in the U.S.?
#606
US rank in 2025
~178,066
Americans share it since 1880
1938
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1913, Loretta came 118th, carried by 1,074 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Loretta’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Loretta’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 1912, 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 Loretta apart
Loretta Young took the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1948, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: Ramona Convent Secondary School.
Cause of death is recorded as ovarian cancer; the grave is at Holy Cross Cemetery.
On the family side, Loretta Young was married Jean Louis and Grant Withers and raised 3 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Loretta Young: Actresses from Salt Lake City, Deaths from ovarian cancer in California and American silent film actresses.
Rowan Atkinson (1955) and Eddie Redmayne (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ramona Convent Secondary School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (1948), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film (1987) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1957)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1917
- Cause of death
- ovarian cancer
- Buried at
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
What the chart says
Loretta, according to the stars
Core essence
Loretta is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Loretta is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Loretta is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Loretta needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Loretta creates
How Loretta makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Loretta creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Loretta is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Loretta is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Loretta has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Loretta's birth date. Working below.
Where Loretta sits
Six lines
Loretta’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Loretta Young
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City that night
Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Salt Lake City was Menkib, in Perseus, 83.9° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.8°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 Salt Lake City on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Salt Lake City, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Loretta Young: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Loretta's chart is
Chart pattern score
67 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mercury · Yod onto Mars · 2 planets at a critical degree
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Loretta Young's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Loretta Young was born on January 6, 1913, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Loretta Young's birth date, January 6, 1913, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Loretta’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Loretta Young's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Loretta Young combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Loretta’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrinePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Loretta’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb
Loretta’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.1° to 1.9° orb
Loretta’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.7° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.8° to 4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Loretta’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 7°37′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 14°41′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 8°42′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 21°21′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 23°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.3°
Loretta’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Loretta’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Saturn, Neptune, MercuryTwo 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.- Yod onto Mars · Saturn, Neptune, MarsTwo 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.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.3°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.3°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on January 6
- Rowan Atkinson1955
- Eddie Redmayne1982
- Irina Shayk1986
- Norman Reedus1969
- Alex Turner1986
- Hilaria Baldwin1984
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Loretta’s cards
Computed from January 6, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Loretta’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q253384 (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 Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Loretta Young at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Loretta Young’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Loretta Young?
- Loretta Young was a Capricorn: born January 6, 1913, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Loretta Young's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1913 birth.
- What was Loretta Young's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Loretta Young's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Loretta Young's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Loretta Young's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
