Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936, Brooklyn, United States; died 2024), was an American actor. Gossett is best remembered for Roots. Gossett's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
Louis Gossett Jr.’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Louis Gossett Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Louis, according to the stars
Core essence
Louis is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Louis needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Louis is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Louis creates
How Louis makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Louis creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Louis 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Louis is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Louis scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Louis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Louis Gossett Jr.'s Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Louis Gossett Jr. was born on May 27, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Louis Gossett Jr.'s birth date, May 27, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis Gossett Jr.'s date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Louis Gossett Jr. combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Louis Gossett Jr., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
Louis’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextilePluto1.0° to 2.2° orb
Louis’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.3° to 2.5° orb
Louis’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.8° to 2.3° orb
Louis’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
Louis’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
Louis’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
Louis’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.0° to 6.5° orb
Louis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
Louis’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.4° orb
Louis’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Louis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°00′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Louis turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 20°03′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Louis is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 19°44′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Louis is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Louis needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 15°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Louis that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.4°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Louis’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Louis is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Louis’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Louis Gossett Jr., so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Louis’s cards
Every card is computed from May 27, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Louis Gossett Jr., so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329719, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Louis Gossett Jr. at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Louis Gossett Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Louis Gossett Jr.?
- Louis Gossett Jr. was a Gemini: born May 27, 1936, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Louis Gossett Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1936 birth.
- What time was Louis Gossett Jr. born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall was Louis Gossett Jr.?
- Louis Gossett Jr. was 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Louis Gossett Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 27, 1936 birth date.
- What was Louis Gossett Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 27, 1936 birth date.
- Where was Louis Gossett Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Louis Gossett Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
