Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy (born October 15, 1900, San Francisco, United States; died 1987), was an American film director and producer. LeRoy's honours include Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding and Academy Honorary Award.
Mervyn LeRoy’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mervyn
Mervyn LeRoy’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mervyn in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~1,586
Americans share it since 1905
1937
its peak year
US records hold Mervyn from 1905 onward, though not for 1900 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1937 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mervyn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mervyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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 1900, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Mervyn apart
The Academy Honorary Award came in 1945, when Mervyn LeRoy was 45.
Mervyn LeRoy was 28 when the work began in 1928.
The record gives Alzheimer's disease as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.
The family line: married Edna Murphy and Doris Warner and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Mervyn LeRoy under Warner family, Male actors from Palm Springs, California and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award winners.
David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1956), Academy Honorary Award (1945) and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1975)
- Nominated for
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, Feature Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Drama
- Working from
- 1928
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Mervyn, according to the stars
Core essence
Mervyn makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Mervyn is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Mervyn wants to be loved
Mervyn 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 Mervyn and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mervyn creates
How Mervyn makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mervyn creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Mervyn 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mervyn 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Mervyn 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 Mervyn's birth date. Working below.
Where Mervyn sits
Six lines
Mervyn’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Mervyn LeRoy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at San Francisco at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 12.2° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 42% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
- Lived in
- San Francisco
Wikidata records San Francisco as Mervyn LeRoy's home, San Francisco among them.
The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mervyn LeRoy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mervyn's chart is
Chart pattern score
18 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Mervyn LeRoy's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Mervyn LeRoy was born on October 15, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Mervyn LeRoy's birth date, October 15, 1900, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mervyn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mervyn LeRoy's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mervyn LeRoy combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Mervyn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Cancer or Leo 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
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
Mervyn’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.7° orb
Mervyn’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.7° orb
Mervyn’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars0.9° to 1.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.6° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 6.2° to 18.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mervyn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°59′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 24°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 6°17′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 6°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Mervyn’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mervyn’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
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Mervyn’s cards
Computed from October 15, 1900. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mervyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q103788 (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.
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The same Mervyn LeRoy 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 Mervyn LeRoy.
Quick answers about Mervyn LeRoy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mervyn LeRoy?
- Mervyn LeRoy was a Libra: born October 15, 1900, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Mervyn LeRoy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1900 birth.
- What was Mervyn LeRoy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mervyn LeRoy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mervyn LeRoy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mervyn LeRoy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
