Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman (born July 6, 1949, Philadelphia, United States; died 1995), was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. Best-known releases include Phyllis Hyman and Somewhere in My Lifetime. Hyman's honours include Theatre World Award.
Phyllis Hyman’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Phyllis
Phyllis Hyman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Phyllis in the U.S.?
#12873
US rank in 2025
~323,367
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1949, 7,315 American girls and 18 boys were registered Phyllis — 50th among girls and 1,807th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Phyllis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on P (7) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Phyllis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets Phyllis apart
George W. Bush (1946) and Sylvester Stallone (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Phyllis, according to the stars
Core essence
Phyllis feels the room before entering it. The core of Phyllis is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Phyllis, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Phyllis wants to be loved
Phyllis wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Phyllis openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Phyllis creates
How Phyllis makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Phyllis creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Phyllis is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Phyllis is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Phyllis scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Phyllis's birth date. Working below.
Where Phyllis sits
Six lines
Phyllis’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Phyllis Hyman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 87% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual Phyllis's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Phyllis Hyman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Phyllis Hyman was born on July 6, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Phyllis Hyman's birth date, July 6, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Phyllis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Phyllis Hyman's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Phyllis Hyman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Phyllis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
Phyllis’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Phyllis’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Phyllis’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextilePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.9° to 6.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.4° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.5° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 5.7° to 19.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Phyllis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 7°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 18°12′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 17°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 8°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mars 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.6°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.9°
Phyllis’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Phyllis’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
More people like Phyllis
Other actors
- Veronica Cartwright1949
- Richard Gere1949
- Phillip Alford1948
- Jeff Bridges1949
- Hanno Pöschl1949
- Shelley Long1949
Born in United States
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- Paul StarrAmerican political writer
- Hugh David PolitzerAmerican physicist
- Vera WangAmerican fashion designer
- Ray DalioAmerican billionaire hedge fund manager
More charts like Phyllis’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Darwin NúñezUruguayan association football player
- Alexis SaelemaekersBelgian footballer (born 1999)
- Yukinari SugawaraJapanese association football player
Born in Ox years
- Amanda SeyfriedAmerican actress
- Sydney SweeneyAmerican actress
- Camila CabelloCuban-Mexican-American singer
Also born on July 6
- George W. Bush1946
- Sylvester Stallone1946
- 50 Cent1975
- Eva Green1980
- Geoffrey Rush1951
- Peter Singer1946
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Cristin MiliotiAmerican actress
- Jessica LowndesCanadian actress and singer
- Olivia MunnAmerican actress, comedian, television personality and author
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Red SkeltonAmerican comedian
- Vittorio De SicaItalian film director
- Alan MenkenAmerican composer (born 1949)
- Phoebe Waller-BridgeEnglish actress, screenwriter and producer (born 1985)
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Ray CharlesAmerican singer, pianist and songwriter
- Charles BukowskiGerman-American writer
- Cyril RamaphosaPresident of South Africa since 2018
- Sharon StoneAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Hamilton SmithAmerican microbiologist
- Thomas A. SteitzAmerican biochemist
- Nikolaas TinbergenDutch Zoologist, ethologist
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Phyllis’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Phyllis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q455619 (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 Nichn2mil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Phyllis Hyman 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 Phyllis Hyman.
Quick answers about Phyllis Hyman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Phyllis Hyman?
- Phyllis Hyman was a Cancer: born July 6, 1949, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Phyllis Hyman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1949 birth.
- What was Phyllis Hyman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Phyllis Hyman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Phyllis Hyman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Phyllis Hyman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
