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Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball (born August 6, 1911, Jamestown, United States, 17:00; died 1989), was an American actress. Notable films include I Love Lucy, Top Hat and Stage Door. Ball's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Kennedy Center Honors.

Lucille Ball’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Lucille Ball’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

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

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

#239

US rank in 2025

~233,321

Americans share it since 1880

1920

its peak year

Lucille ranked 32nd among girls and 963rd among boys in 1911, the year of this birth, with 2,740 American girls and 13 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lucille’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

9

Soul Urge · meaning

11

Personality · perceptive

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

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

Lucille’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Lucille apart

Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Lucille, according to the stars

Core essence

Lucille is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Lucille 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, Lucille 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 Lucille needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Lucille wants to be loved

Lucille wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Lucille and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Lucille creates

How Lucille makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Lucille creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Lucille is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lucille 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Lucille is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Lucille's birth date. Working below.

Where Lucille sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lucille

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lucille

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

PrivateExpressive
Lucille

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lucille

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

PracticalVisionary
Lucille

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lucille

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Lucille Ball

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jamestown on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Jamestown at 17:00, Lucille Ball’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Jamestown that night

Computed for 42.10°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Jamestown was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 82.3° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −47.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jamestown on any night.

Sun -26° below the horizon, Moon down and 90% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Jamestown, United States
Lived in
Jamestown · Anaconda

Wikidata records Jamestown and Anaconda as Lucille Ball's home, Jamestown among them.

The death is recorded at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Grove in 1989.

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What Lucille's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 戌.

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/3

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · T-square onto Sun

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.

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Lucille Ball at a glance

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Lucille Ball's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.

What Leo means →

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Lucille Ball's birth date, August 6, 1911, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Lucille’s chart

Lucille’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 4.3° orbSun in Leo · 13°18′ · house 8☉13°Moon in Capricorn · 7°22′ · house 1☽7°Mercury in Virgo · 9°50′ · house 9☿9°Venus in Virgo · 23°51′ · house 9♀23°Mars in Taurus · 14°07′ · house 5♂14°Jupiter in Scorpio · 6°26′ · house 11♃6°Saturn in Taurus · 19°35′ · house 5♄19°Uranus in Capricorn · 26°43′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Cancer · 22°08′ · house 7♆22°Pluto in Gemini · 28°29′ · house 6♇28°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 1°51′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 1°51′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLib 27°02′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAri 27°02′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsquareMarsapplying · 0.8° orb

    Lucille’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 0.9° orb

    Lucille’s feelings open doors for their growth.

  • VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb

    Lucille’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MoontrineMercuryapplying · 2.5° orb

  • SaturnsextileNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb

  • VenustrineUranusapplying · 2.9° orb

  • MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MercurytrineMarsapplying · 4.3° orb

  • VenustrineSaturnseparating · 4.3° orb

  • VenussquarePlutoapplying · 4.6° orb

  • UranusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.5° orb

  • SunsquareSaturnapplying · 6.3° orb

  • MoontrineMarsapplying · 6.8° orb

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 6.9° orb

  • MarsoppositionJupiterseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°38′ · House 3

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 2°52′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 23°59′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°05′ · House 12

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°10′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Ceres opposition Ascendant 1.0°
  • Chiron sextile Moon 1.7°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 1.8°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.3°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.7°

Lucille’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Lucille’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Moon, Mercury, Mars, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun biquintile Moon 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.2°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.8°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Lucille’s houses

Lucille’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 5Moon, Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Capricorn, house 1emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Cancer, house 7emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Taurus, house 5emptyhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Virgo, house 9Mars, Saturncreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 9Plutowork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Capricorn, house 1Neptunepartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Leo, house 8Sunshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 9Mercury, Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Virgo, house 9emptycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Gemini, house 6Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 11emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Lucille’s family here

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Lucille’s cards

Computed from August 6, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lucille’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q209662 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lucille Ball at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lucille Ball.

Quick answers about Lucille Ball’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lucille Ball?
Lucille Ball was a Leo: born August 6, 1911, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
What was Lucille Ball's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1911 birth.
What time was Lucille Ball born?
17:00 local time in Jamestown, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Lucille Ball's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 17:00 birth time in Jamestown, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Lucille Ball's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Lucille Ball's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 5°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lucille Ball's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lucille Ball's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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