Ray Collins
Ray Collins (born December 10, 1889, Sacramento, United States; died 1965), was an American actor.
Ray Collins’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ray
Ray Collins’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
In 1889, 355 American boys and 30 girls were registered Ray — 54th among boys and 451st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ray’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Ray apart
Ray Collins was 13 when the work began in 1902.
The record gives pulmonary emphysema as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Federal Theatre Project people, Male actors from Sacramento, California and Deaths from emphysema.
Ada Lovelace (1815) and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Working from
- 1902
- Cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ray is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ray creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Ray 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 3 is the creative. Ray is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ray fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Ray Collins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sacramento 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 Sacramento that night
Computed for 38.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sacramento at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Sacramento sits at 38.6°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 Sacramento at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 88% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sacramento, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 1965.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ray Collins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ray's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Saturn · No Water planets
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 →Ray Collins in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Ray Collins's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
Ray Collins was born on December 10, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Ray Collins's birth date, December 10, 1889, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Collins' date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ray Collins combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Ray’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.4° orb
Ray’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.9° to 2.2° orb
Ray’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.3° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.7° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.0° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus7.5° to 8.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable6 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 21°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°00′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 11°47′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°04′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 15°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
Ray’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ray’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.3°
More people like Ray
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Born in United States
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- Louis LaCossAmerican journalist
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Also born on December 10
- Ada Lovelace1815
- Gonzalo Higuaín1987
- Teyana Taylor1990
- Raven-Symoné1985
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Other Gilded Healers
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Ray’s cards
Computed from December 10, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1550341 (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 RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Collins 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 Ray Collins.
Quick answers about Ray Collins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Collins?
- Ray Collins was a Sagittarius: born December 10, 1889, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Ray Collins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 10, 1889 birth.
- What was Ray Collins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ray Collins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ray Collins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Collins's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
