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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Louis
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.
How common is the name Louis in the U.S.?
#249
US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1936, 4,418 American boys and 36 girls were registered Louis — 44th among boys and 1,195th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
2
Soul Urge · closeness
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Louis apart
Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Louis sits
Six lines
Louis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Gemini
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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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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.0° to 6.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°00′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 20°03′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 19°44′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 15°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.4°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
Louis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Louis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Louis
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- Peter Boyle1935
- Ivan Jandl1937
- Diahann Carroll1935
- Albert Hall1937
- Kiyohiko Ichihara1936
- Frederic Forrest1936
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on May 27
- Rachel Carson1907
- Donna Strickland1959
- Lily-Rose Depp1999
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- T. J. RodgersAmerican businessman
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- JunChinese actor, singer, model and dancer
Other Steadfast Healers
- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate
- Pierre-Emerick AubameyangGabonese-French footballer
- Claire DanesAmerican actor
- James McAvoyScottish actor
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jordon RileyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Andrew DePaolaAmerican football player (born 1987)
- Jamal AdamsAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Louis’s cards
Computed from May 27, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329719 (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 Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Louis Gossett Jr..
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Louis Gossett Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
