Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker (born November 21, 1920, Minneapolis, United States; died 1988), was an American actor. Meeker's honours include Theatre World Award.
Ralph Meeker’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ralph
Ralph Meeker’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ralph in the U.S.?
#1048
US rank in 2025
~415,858
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 8,556 American boys and 42 girls named Ralph in 1920: 22nd among boys and 1,185th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ralph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ralph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The record
What sets Ralph apart
Björk (1965) and Goldie Hawn (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ralph, according to the stars
Core essence
Ralph does not do surface. The core of Ralph is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ralph is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Ralph wants to be loved
Ralph wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ralph you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Ralph creates
How Ralph makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ralph creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ralph 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ralph is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ralph does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Ralph's birth date. Working below.
Where Ralph sits
Six lines
Ralph’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Ralph Meeker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis that night
Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Minneapolis was Mirach, in Andromeda, 79.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
Minneapolis sits at 45.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −45.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Minneapolis on any night.
The Moon, 81% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
How unusual Ralph's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Ralph Meeker at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Ralph Meeker's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 21, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Ralph Meeker was born on November 21, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Ralph Meeker's birth date, November 21, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Ralph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ralph Meeker's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Ralph Meeker combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Ralph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb
Ralph’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.2° orb
Ralph’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.1° to 2.8° orb
Ralph’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.0° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Ralph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°16′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 9°07′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 24°36′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 1°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.9°
- Chiron square Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.3°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.5°
Ralph’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ralph’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 quintile Jupiter 1.0°
More people like Ralph
Other actors
- Eva Perón1919
- Alida Valli1921
- Frank Overton1918
- Donna Reed1921
- Tim Holt1919
- James Whitmore1921
Born in United States
- Mickey RooneyAmerican actor
- Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
- Robert P. MillsAmerican magazine editor and literary agent
- Donna ReedAmerican film and television actress
- Don Edward FehrenbacherAmerican historian
- Jan SterlingAmerican actress
More charts like Ralph’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Megan MullallyAmerican actress
- Stephen NedoroscikAmerican gymnast
- Nastia LiukinRussian-American artistic gymnast (born 1989)
Born in Monkey years
- L.A. ReidAmerican record executive (born 1956)
- Jerry SpringerAmerican television personality and politician
- Ben SavageAmerican actor
Also born on November 21
- Björk1965
- Goldie Hawn1945
- Davido1992
- Ronny Chieng1985
- Dick Durbin1944
- Cameran Wimberly1983
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Joseph MurrayUS surgeon
- Aaron CiechanoverIsraeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- George Wells BeadleAmerican geneticist
Other Scorpio Monkey charts
- Lorne MichaelsCanadian and American television producer, writer, and actor
- S. Robson WaltonAmerican billionaire and heir
- Zac PosenAmerican fashion designer
- James CookBritish explorer, cartographer and naval officer
Other Tidal Scholars
- Hayes MacArthurAmerican stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- Shanna MoaklerAmerican actress and model
- Jeff Lewisreal estate speculator
- Tatum O'NealAmerican actress (born 1963)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Betty WilliamsNorthern Irish peace activist
- Fredrik BajerDanish politician
- Peter MansfieldEnglish physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Ralph’s cards
Computed from November 21, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1370520 (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 derivative work: Rossrs (talk) Ralph_Meeker_in_Ada_trailer.jpg: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ralph Meeker at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ralph Meeker.
Quick answers about Ralph Meeker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ralph Meeker?
- Ralph Meeker was a Scorpio: born November 21, 1920, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Ralph Meeker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 21, 1920 birth.
- What was Ralph Meeker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ralph Meeker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ralph Meeker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ralph Meeker's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
