Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (born December 18, 1917, Cogdell, United States; died 2005), was an American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist. Davis is best remembered for Purlie Victorious. Davis's honours include Marian Anderson Award, NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award and Kennedy Center Honors.
Ossie Davis’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ossie
Ossie Davis’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ossie in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~4,594
Americans share it since 1880
1919
its peak year
The SSA recorded 74 American girls and 30 boys named Ossie in 1917: 804th among girls and 1,255th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ossie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on O (6) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ossie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Ossie apart
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ossie, according to the stars
Core essence
Ossie is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ossie is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Ossie needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Ossie needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Ossie wants to be loved
Ossie wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Ossie be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Ossie creates
How Ossie makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Ossie builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Ossie is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ossie is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ossie 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 Ossie's birth date. Working below.
Where Ossie sits
Six lines
Ossie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cogdell 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 Cogdell that night
Computed for 31.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cogdell at 9 p.m. that evening: Hamal of Aries, within 8.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Cogdell sits at 31.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −58.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cogdell on any night.
The Moon, 26% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
How unusual Ossie's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →Ossie Davis at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Ossie Davis's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Ossie Davis was born on December 18, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Ossie Davis's birth date, December 18, 1917, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ossie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ossie Davis' date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ossie Davis 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.
Ossie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Aquarius 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
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.6° to 2.4° orb
Ossie’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
Ossie’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareMars3.6° to 4.3° orb
Ossie’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableMercurytrineMars5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 3.8° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.2° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ossie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°18′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius or Capricorn during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°21′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.2°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.3°
Ossie’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Ossie’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.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.4°
Ossie’s family here
One relative of Ossie Davis also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in United States
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- DMX1970
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Tyson CampbellAmerican football defensive back
- Damarri Mathisfootball player (born 1999)
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Other Sagittarius Snake charts
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Other Evergreen Healers
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Ossie’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ossie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q515632 (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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ossie Davis 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 Ossie Davis.
Quick answers about Ossie Davis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ossie Davis?
- Ossie Davis was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1917, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Ossie Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1917 birth.
- What was Ossie Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ossie Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ossie Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ossie Davis's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
