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.
Your match with Lorraine
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.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Lorraine Gary
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York 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 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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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
- The tightest major aspect in Lorraine Gary's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Lorraine Gary combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
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.
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
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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Lorraine’s chart
Kite · 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 · 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°
More people like Lorraine
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- Bibi Andersson1935
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Also born on August 16
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- Charles Bukowski1920
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Wyclef JeanHaitian rapper
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Other Leo Ox charts
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Other Evergreen Scholars
- Taj GibsonAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- Jarred VanderbiltAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Alex CarusoAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- JD DavisonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Maxim GaudetteCanadian actor
- Zaira Wasimformer Indian actress
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Lorraine’s cards
Computed from August 16, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese 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.







