Ray Milland
Ray Milland (born January 3, 1907, Neath, United Kingdom; died 1986), was a British actor. Milland's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Ray Milland’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ray
Ray Milland’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
Ray ranked 60th among boys and 612th among girls in 1907, the year of this birth, with 475 American boys and 38 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ray’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
2
Soul Urge · closeness
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7).
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 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1906, 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 Ray apart
Ray Milland took the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor in 1945, at 38.
Training came by way of Kings Monkton School.
The working life starts in 1929, at 22.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.
Wikipedia's editors put Ray Milland under Actors from Neath, United States Army civilians and Royal Horse Guards soldiers.
The same date carries Lowell Allen Williams. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Kings Monkton School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1946), Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1946) and National Board of Review Award for Best Actor (1945)
- Nominated for
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1929
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Ray needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Ray needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ray creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Ray is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ray runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Ray Milland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neath 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 Neath that night
Computed for 51.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Neath at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 3.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 51.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Neath at all: they sit past the −38.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 85% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Neath, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Torrance, Los Angeles County in 1986.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ray Milland: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 Milland at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Ray Milland's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Ray Milland was born on January 3, 1907, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Ray Milland's birth date, January 3, 1907, 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 Milland's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Ray Milland combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° 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
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Ray’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.2° to 1.3° orb
Ray’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
Ray’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssextileUranus1.3° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.4° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.7° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ray’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 7°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°33′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.7°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 3.0°
Ray’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Ray’s chart
Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Born the same day as Ray
Lowell Allen Williams was born on January 3, 1907 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Neath, at 51.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Tidal Diplomats
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Ray’s cards
Computed from January 3, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181774 (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 Whitey Schafer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Milland 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 Milland.
Quick answers about Ray Milland’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Milland?
- Ray Milland was a Capricorn: born January 3, 1907, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Ray Milland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1907 birth.
- How tall was Ray Milland?
- Ray Milland was 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Ray Milland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ray Milland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ray Milland's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Milland's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
