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Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger (born January 10, 1904, Dorchester, United States; died 1987), was an American actor. Bolger is best remembered for The Wizard of Oz. Bolger's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ray Bolger’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Ray Bolger’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Ray in the U.S.?

#792

US rank in 2025

~210,307

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1904, Ray came 55th among boys and 639th among girls, carried by 432 American boys and 30 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ray’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Ray apart

Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ray, according to the stars

Core essence

Ray is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ray is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Ray wants to be loved

Ray wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ray and watch them fall for you again.

How Ray creates

How Ray makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ray 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: Ray is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ray is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ray goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Ray's birth date. Working below.

Where Ray sits

Six lines

Ray’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Ray

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ray

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Ray

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ray

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ray

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ray

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ray Bolger

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dorchester 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 Dorchester that night

Computed for 42.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Dorchester at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon down and 37% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Ray's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Neptune · 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.

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Ray Bolger at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Ray Bolger's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Ray Bolger was born on January 10, 1904, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Ray Bolger's birth date, January 10, 1904, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ray’s chart

Ray’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.3° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.3° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.8° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.9° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Capricorn · 19°03′☉19°Moon in Libra · 29°16′☽29°Mercury in Aquarius · 2°36′ · retrograde☿℞2°Venus in Sagittarius · 6°31′♀6°Mars in Aquarius · 22°58′♂22°Jupiter in Pisces · 19°22′♃19°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°06′♄9°Uranus in Sagittarius · 27°10′♅27°Neptune in Cancer · 4°09′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Gemini · 19°10′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Ray’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Ray’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb

    Ray’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.1° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.4° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 6.8° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Ray’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 23°19′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 29°45′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 21°08′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 5°50′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Venus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.0°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 1.8°
  • Eros trine Pluto 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.8°

Ray’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ray’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Neptune · Mercury, Venus, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.1°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.4°

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Ray’s cards

Computed from January 10, 1904. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q240886 (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 Faded photographer's stamp appears to credit the photo to "Marcus Blechman"Publicity materials are presumed to have been distributed by the press-department representing the show's producers, Wiman & Rodgers in association with Richard Kollmar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ray Bolger 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 Ray Bolger.

Quick answers about Ray Bolger’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ray Bolger?
Ray Bolger was a Capricorn: born January 10, 1904, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Ray Bolger's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1904 birth.
What was Ray Bolger's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Ray Bolger's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ray Bolger's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ray Bolger's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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