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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Mercedes
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
Of the names registered in 1948, Mercedes came 727th, carried by 136 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mercedes’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mercedes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Mercedes apart
Mercedes Ruehl took the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1991, at 43.
The classrooms behind this chart: HB Studio and College of New Rochelle.
The working life starts in 1976, at 28.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mercedes Ruehl: College of New Rochelle alumni, People from Jackson Heights, Queens and Mercy University alumni.
The same date carries Steven Chu and Bernadette Peters. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- HB Studio and College of New Rochelle
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1992), Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1991) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1992)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
- Working from
- 1976
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
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. Working below.
Where Mercedes sits
Six lines
Mercedes’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Mercedes Ruehl
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Queens was Castor, in Gemini, 81.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 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 Queens at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon down and 76% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Mercedes's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · Grand trine · No Earth planets
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenussextileUranus1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.7° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.9° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 20°37′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 21°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mercedes’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mercedes’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.3°
Born the same day as Mercedes
2 other people here were born on February 28, 1948, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Queens, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in United States
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Fellow Pisces suns
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on February 28
- Linus Pauling1901
- Steven Chu1948
- Ali Larter1976
- Jeremy Allen White1991
- Emmelie de Forest1993
- Jason Aldean1977
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Fritz LeiberAmerican writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
- Dean ParisotAmerican film and television director
- Daniel Abrahamspeculative fiction writer from the United States
Other Pisces Rat charts
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- Cameron JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- D'Angelo RussellAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Andrey MelnichenkoRussian businessman and billionaire
Other Tidal Seekers
- Farrah FawcettAmerican actress
- Riyad MahrezAlgerian-French footballer
- Hernán CrespoArgentine footballer
- Helen ClarkPrime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Mercedes’s cards
Computed from February 28, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mercedes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232933 (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 Americasroof, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mercedes Ruehl at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Mercedes Ruehl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
