Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr (born May 21, 1917, New Westminster, Canada; died 1993), was a Canadian actor. Burr's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Canada's Walk of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Raymond Burr’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Raymond
How common is the name Raymond in the U.S.?
#395
US rank in 2025
~783,311
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Raymond ranked 16th among boys and 994th among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 9,956 American boys and 50 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Raymond’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Raymond’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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 Raymond apart
Raymond Burr took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1959, at 42.
Training came by way of Vallejo High School and Berkeley High School.
The working life starts in 1940, at 23.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney cancer; the grave is at Fraser Cemetery.
Wikipedia's editors put Raymond Burr under Male actors from Solano County, California, Actors from Vallejo, California and Canadian gay actors.
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Vallejo High School, Berkeley High School and Columbia University
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1959) and Canada's Walk of Fame (2009)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- kidney cancer
- Buried at
- Fraser Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Raymond, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Raymond processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Raymond needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Raymond wants to be loved
Raymond wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Raymond like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Raymond creates
How Raymond makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Raymond 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: Raymond is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Raymond 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Raymond is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Raymond's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Raymond Burr
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Westminster 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 New Westminster that night
Computed for 49.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New Westminster at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
At 49.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Westminster, Canada
The death is recorded at Sonoma, Sonoma County in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Raymond Burr: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Raymond's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart · 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 →Raymond Burr at a glance
Taurus or Gemini Sun
Raymond Burr was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Raymond Burr was born on May 21, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Raymond Burr's birth date, May 21, 1917, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Raymond’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Raymond Burr's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
Raymond’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.9° to 1.3° orb
Raymond’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.1° to 1.8° orb
Raymond’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.9° to 2.8° orb
Raymond’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareUranus6.0° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.6° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 3.7° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Raymond’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 11°08′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 13°58′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°21′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 21°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.0°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.4°
- Eros opposition Mars 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.4°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.8°
Raymond’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Raymond’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.7°
More people like Raymond
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- Jane Wyman1917
- Tim Holt1919
- Eli Wallach1915
- Lena Horne1917
- Barry Nelson1917
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Also born on May 21
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Roger Martin du GardFrench writer
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Raymond’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1917. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Raymond’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q336877 (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 NBC TV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Raymond Burr 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 Raymond Burr.
Quick answers about Raymond Burr’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Raymond Burr?
- Raymond Burr was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Raymond Burr's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1917 birth.
- What was Raymond Burr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Raymond Burr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Raymond Burr's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Raymond Burr's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
