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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with R. Lee Ermey
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.
What R. Lee Ermey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
R. Lee Ermey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1944, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets R. Lee Ermey apart
University of Manila shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1961, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia; the grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.
Wikipedia's editors put R. Lee Ermey under Kansas independents, People from Emporia, Kansas and United States Marine Corps non-commissioned officers.
Jessica Chastain (1977) and Steve Ballmer (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Manila
- Working from
- 1961
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
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. Working below.
Where R. Lee Ermey sits
Six lines
R. Lee Ermey’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 R. Lee Ermey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Emporia 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 Emporia that night
Computed for 38.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Emporia at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Gemini.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Emporia on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Emporia, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for R. Lee Ermey: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual R.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · No Earth planets · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.3° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 6.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.4° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 11°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 0°24′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 21°34′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 10°46′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
R. Lee Ermey’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in R. Lee Ermey’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on March 24
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Steve Ballmer1956
- Jim Parsons1973
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- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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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
Computed from March 24, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
R. Lee Ermey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q353978 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was R. Lee Ermey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
