R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944, Emporia, United States; died 2018), was an American actor and soldier. Ermey's honours include Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnam Service Medal and Gallantry Cross.
R. Lee Ermey’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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R. Lee Ermey’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.
R. Lee Ermey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
R. Lee Ermey, according to the stars
Core essence
R. Lee Ermey leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of R. Lee Ermey is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How R. Lee Ermey wants to be loved
R. Lee Ermey wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with R. Lee Ermey, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How R. Lee Ermey creates
How R. Lee Ermey 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. R. Lee Ermey 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: R. Lee Ermey is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. R. Lee Ermey 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. R. Lee Ermey scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from R. Lee Ermey'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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Emporia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
R. Lee Ermey's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
R. Lee Ermey was born on March 24, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
R. Lee Ermey's birth date, March 24, 1944, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in R. Lee Ermey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in R. Lee Ermey's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- R. Lee Ermey 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.
R. Lee Ermey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for R. Lee Ermey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussextilePluto1.0° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrinePluto2.1° to 3.1° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.3° to 5.3° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune4.4° to 4.9° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 6.0° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.4° to 7.4° orb
R. Lee Ermey’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
R. Lee Ermey’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 11°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has R. Lee Ermey turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresCancer 0°24′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. R. Lee Ermey is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosAquarius 21°34′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. R. Lee Ermey is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 10°46′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has R. Lee Ermey carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has R. Lee Ermey exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros trine Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.5°
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°).
R. Lee Ermey’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: R. Lee Ermey is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 R. Lee Ermey’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.
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for R. Lee Ermey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
R. Lee Ermey’s cards
Every card is computed from March 24, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for R. Lee Ermey, 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
R. Lee Ermey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q353978, 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 Zachary B, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same R. Lee Ermey at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 R. Lee Ermey.
Quick answers about R. Lee Ermey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was R. Lee Ermey?
- R. Lee Ermey was an Aries: born March 24, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
- What was R. Lee Ermey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1944 birth.
- What time was R. Lee Ermey 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.
- How tall was R. Lee Ermey?
- R. Lee Ermey was 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was R. Lee Ermey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 24, 1944 birth date.
- What was R. Lee Ermey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 24, 1944 birth date.
- Where was R. Lee Ermey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was R. Lee Ermey's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
