Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl (born February 28, 1948, Queens, United States), aged 78, is an American actress. Ruehl's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
Mercedes Ruehl’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Mercedes Ruehl’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Mercedes in the U.S.?
#1439
US rank in 2025
~46,575
Americans share it since 1880
1991
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mercedes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mercedes, according to the stars
Core essence
Mercedes feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Mercedes is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Mercedes wants to be loved
Mercedes wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mercedes creates
How Mercedes makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Mercedes creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Mercedes 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Mercedes is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Mercedes fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Mercedes's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mercedes sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Mercedes Ruehl's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Mercedes Ruehl was born on February 28, 1948, which falls in a Earth 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 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Mercedes Ruehl's birth date, February 28, 1948, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Mercedes’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mercedes Ruehl's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mercedes Ruehl combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Mercedes’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mercedes Ruehl, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.3° to 0.8° orb
Mercedes’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Mercedes’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.0° to 1.1° orb
Mercedes’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileUranus1.4° to 1.8° orb
Mercedes’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus1.5° to 2.6° orb
Mercedes’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.7° to 3.4° orb
Mercedes’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 3.0° orb
Mercedes’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.3° orb
Mercedes’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.8° to 3.4° orb
Mercedes’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineMars2.9° to 4.4° orb
Mercedes’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
Mercedes’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° orb
Mercedes’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Mercedes’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Mercedes carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Mercedes is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 20°37′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Mercedes is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 21°36′ (moves 0.08° 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 Mercedes needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Mercedes at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron square Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.0°
- Eros square Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.1°
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°).
Mercedes’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. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Mercedes is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Mercedes’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.
Kite · Venus, Mars, Jupiter, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Mars, Jupiter, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mercedes Ruehl, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Mercedes
2 other people here were born on February 28, 1948, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Mercedes’s cards
Every card is computed from February 28, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mercedes Ruehl, 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
Mercedes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232933, 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 Americasroof, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mercedes Ruehl at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mercedes Ruehl.
Quick answers about Mercedes Ruehl’s chart
- How old is Mercedes Ruehl?
- Mercedes Ruehl is 78 years old, born February 28, 1948 in Queens, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mercedes Ruehl?
- Mercedes Ruehl is a Pisces: born February 28, 1948, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1948 birth.
- What time was Mercedes Ruehl 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.
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 28, 1948 birth date.
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 28, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Mercedes Ruehl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
