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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931, Lowell, United States; died 2021), was an American actress. Dukakis's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Olympia Dukakis’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Olympia Dukakis’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#2210

US rank in 2025

~3,644

Americans share it since 1897

1981

its peak year

Olympia ranked 1,310th in 1931, the year of this birth, with 32 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Olympia’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

11

Soul Urge · insight

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on O (6) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Olympia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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 Olympia apart

Olympia Dukakis took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1987, at 56.

Boston University College of Fine Arts and Arlington High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1961, at 30.

The grave is at Mount Hebron Cemetery.

On the family side, Olympia Dukakis was married Louis Zorich and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia's editors put Olympia Dukakis under Arlington High School (Massachusetts) alumni, Dukakis family and Actresses from Lowell, Massachusetts.

Nicole Kidman (1967) and Behzinga (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Boston University College of Fine Arts and Arlington High School
Awards
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1988) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1987)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1961
Buried at
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
55

What the chart says

Olympia, according to the stars

Core essence

Olympia 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. Olympia needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Olympia wants to be loved

Olympia wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Olympia like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Olympia creates

How Olympia makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Olympia creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Olympia is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Olympia is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Olympia channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Olympia's birth date. Working below.

Where Olympia sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Olympia

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Olympia

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

PrivateExpressive
Olympia

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Olympia

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Olympia

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Olympia

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Olympia Dukakis

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

Olympia’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 14.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Lowell that night

Computed for 42.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Lowell at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 42.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 28% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Lowell, United States
Lived in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Olympia Dukakis's home, against Lowell as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2021.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Olympia Dukakis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Olympia's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Uranus

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.

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Olympia Dukakis at a glance

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Olympia Dukakis's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 20, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Metal Goat

Kind, and quietly tough.

Olympia Dukakis was born on June 20, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Olympia Dukakis's birth date, June 20, 1931, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Olympia’s chart

Olympia’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.5° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.7° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.1° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.6° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.7° orbSun in Gemini · 28°21′☉28°Moon in Leo · 27°19′☽27°Mercury in Gemini · 17°27′☿17°Venus in Gemini · 6°55′♀6°Mars in Virgo · 5°27′♂5°Jupiter in Cancer · 24°12′♃24°Saturn in Capricorn · 21°34′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Aries · 18°53′♅18°Neptune in Virgo · 3°21′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°49′♇19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.4° to 2.4° orb

    Olympia’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.9° orb

    Olympia’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.1° to 1.8° orb

    Olympia’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.2° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 21°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 5°59′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 12°10′ (moves 0.53° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 7°50′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Venus 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 2.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Olympia’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Olympia’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°

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Olympia’s cards

Computed from June 20, 1931. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Olympia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230188 (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 Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Olympia Dukakis at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Olympia Dukakis.

Quick answers about Olympia Dukakis’s chart

What zodiac sign was Olympia Dukakis?
Olympia Dukakis was a Gemini: born June 20, 1931, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Olympia Dukakis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 20, 1931 birth.
What was Olympia Dukakis's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Olympia Dukakis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Olympia Dukakis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Olympia Dukakis's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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