Ray Walston
Ray Walston (born November 2, 1914, Laurel, United States; died 2001), was an American actor. Walston's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Ray Walston’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ray
Ray Walston’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 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1914, 1,657 American boys and 108 girls were registered Ray — 74th among boys and 538th 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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
The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical came in 1956, when Ray Walston was 42.
Ray Walston was 31 when the work began in 1945.
The record gives systemic lupus erythematosus as the cause, and Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from lupus, Vee-Jay Records artists and Male actors from New Orleans.
Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (1995) and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1956)
- Working from
- 1945
- Cause of death
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- Buried at
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray does not do surface. The core of Ray 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 Ray is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Ray is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Ray needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ray is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ray leads without needing to do it alone.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Ray Walston
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Laurel 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 Laurel that night
Computed for 31.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Laurel was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 85.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
Laurel sits at 31.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Laurel, United States
The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ray Walston: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Jupiter · No Earth 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Ray Walston's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Ray Walston was born on November 2, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Ray Walston's birth date, November 2, 1914, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Walston's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ray Walston 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.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Taurus 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
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.0° orb
Ray’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Ray’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus1.2° to 2.2° orb
Ray’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.0° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussextileUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.3° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°05′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 20°27′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 0°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.4°
- Chiron square Venus 2.7°
Ray’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ray’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
More people like Ray
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- Vivien Leigh1913
- Marianne Aminoff1916
- Harold Russell1914
- Keenan Wynn1916
- Arthur Kennedy1914
- Gregory Peck1916
Born in United States
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- Herman WoukAmerican writer
- E. G. MarshallAmerican actor
- Theodore H. WhiteAmerican historian and author
- Jim G. LucasAmerican journalist
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Fellow Scorpio suns
- Tracee Ellis RossAmerican actress
- Mohammad RasoulofIranian filmmaker
- Paul GrahamEnglish-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Born in Tiger years
- Anne McCaffreyAmerican-Irish novelist
- Wilson TuckerAmerican writer
- Frank M. RobinsonAmerican science fiction writer
Also born on November 2
- Shah Rukh Khan1965
- David Schwimmer1966
- Larry Fink1952
- Jon M. Chu1979
- Danny Amendola1985
- Karamo Brown1980
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Barbara PalvinHungarian model
- Angela WhiteAustralian pornographic actress, pornographic director, and model
- Aliko DangoteNigerian businessperson
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
- Jackie CooganAmerican actor
- Elsa LanchesterBritish-American actress
- Susse WoldDanish actress and singer
- John BergerBritish painter, writer and art critic
Other Tidal Scholars
- Colin JostAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1982)
- Evangeline LillyCanadian actress (born 1979)
- Ruth NeggaEthiopian-Irish actress
- Megan MullallyAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Quiara Alegría HudesAmerican playwright and composer
- Fred WahCanadian poet (born 1939)
- Arthur SzeAmerican poet
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Ray’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q692800 (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 CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Walston 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 Walston.
Quick answers about Ray Walston’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Walston?
- Ray Walston was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1914, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Ray Walston's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1914 birth.
- What was Ray Walston's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ray Walston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ray Walston's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Walston's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
