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Lorraine Gary

Lorraine Gary (born August 16, 1937, New York City, United States), aged 89, is an American actress.

Lorraine Gary’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Lorraine Gary’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1044

US rank in 2025

~210,845

Americans share it since 1882

1928

its peak year

Lorraine ranked 83rd among girls and 1,610th among boys in 1937, the year of this birth, with 2,940 American girls and 19 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lorraine’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Lorraine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

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 1937, 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 Lorraine apart

Columbia University shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1967, at 30.

Lorraine Gary was married Sid Sheinberg.

Wikipedia's editors put Lorraine Gary under People from Forest Hills, Queens, Columbia University School of General Studies alumni and Jewish American actresses.

Madonna (1958) and James Cameron (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia University
Nominated for
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
Working from
1967
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
27

What the chart says

Lorraine, according to the stars

Core essence

Lorraine is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Lorraine is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Lorraine 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 Lorraine 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 Lorraine wants to be loved

Lorraine wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Lorraine gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Lorraine creates

How Lorraine makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lorraine creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Lorraine is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lorraine is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Lorraine 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 Lorraine's birth date. Working below.

Where Lorraine sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lorraine

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lorraine

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

PrivateExpressive
Lorraine

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lorraine

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Lorraine

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lorraine

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 New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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The sky over New York City that night

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

Vega stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.0° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.

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

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 77% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.

How unusual Lorraine's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · No Air planets · 1 planet 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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Lorraine Gary in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Lorraine Gary's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 16, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Lorraine Gary was born on August 16, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Lorraine Gary's birth date, August 16, 1937, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Lorraine’s chart

Lorraine’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.6° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.8° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.9° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.1° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 23°21′☉23°Moon in Sagittarius · 21°13′☽21°Mercury in Virgo · 20°39′☿20°Venus in Cancer · 13°23′♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 3°37′♂3°Jupiter in Capricorn · 18°44′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Aries · 4°22′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Taurus · 13°41′♅13°Neptune in Virgo · 17°45′♆17°Pluto in Cancer · 29°01′♇29°

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

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Lorraine’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.0° orb

    Lorraine’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb

    Lorraine’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto4.4° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.7° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 29°21′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 23°05′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 13°42′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°42′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.0°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 0.3°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.7°

Lorraine’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Lorraine’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 1.0°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.4°

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Lorraine’s cards

Computed from August 16, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lorraine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q266942 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lorraine Gary.

Quick answers about Lorraine Gary’s chart

How old is Lorraine Gary?
Lorraine Gary is 89 years old, born August 16, 1937 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Lorraine Gary?
Lorraine Gary is a Leo: born August 16, 1937, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Lorraine Gary's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1937 birth.
What is Lorraine Gary's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Lorraine Gary's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Lorraine Gary's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Lorraine Gary's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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