Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer (born May 25, 1970, Montgomery, United States), aged 56, is an American actress. Spencer's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Golden Globe Awards.
Octavia Spencer’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Octavia Spencer’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Octavia in the U.S.?
#308
US rank in 2025
~24,117
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Octavia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Octavia apart
Jamie Kennedy shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Octavia, according to the stars
Core essence
Octavia 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. Octavia needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Octavia wants to be loved
Octavia wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Octavia gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Octavia creates
How Octavia makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Octavia creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Octavia is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Octavia is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Octavia scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Octavia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Octavia Spencer at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Octavia Spencer's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Octavia Spencer was born on May 25, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Octavia Spencer's birth date, May 25, 1970, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Octavia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Octavia Spencer's date-only chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Fire.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Octavia Spencer combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Octavia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Octavia Spencer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableMarssquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Octavia’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Octavia’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareUranus0.4° to 1.7° orb
Octavia’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn1.3° to 1.4° orb
Octavia’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.9° to 2.7° orb
Octavia’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
Octavia’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
Octavia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.1° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Octavia’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.
⚷ ChironAries 9°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Octavia may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 16°06′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Octavia looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 23°27′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Octavia is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°55′ (moves 0.32° 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 Octavia needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Octavia is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.4°
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°).
Octavia’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Octavia is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Octavia’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Octavia Spencer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Octavia
Jamie Kennedy was born on May 25, 1970 too, 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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Octavia’s cards
Every card is computed from May 25, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Octavia Spencer, 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
Octavia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229254, 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 Aubrey Gemignani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Octavia Spencer at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Octavia Spencer.
Quick answers about Octavia Spencer’s chart
- How old is Octavia Spencer?
- Octavia Spencer is 56 years old, born May 25, 1970 in Montgomery, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Octavia Spencer?
- Octavia Spencer is a Gemini: born May 25, 1970, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- What is Octavia Spencer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1970 birth.
- What time was Octavia Spencer 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 Octavia Spencer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 25, 1970 birth date.
- What is Octavia Spencer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 25, 1970 birth date.
- Where is Octavia Spencer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Octavia Spencer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
