Red Skelton
Red Skelton (born July 18, 1913, Vincennes, United States; died 1997), was an American comedian. Skelton's honours include Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama.
Red Skelton’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Red
Red Skelton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Red in the U.S.?
#6075
US rank in 2025
~396
Americans share it since 1888
2024
its peak year
Red ranked 2,059th in 1913, the year of this birth, with 9 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Red’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Red’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Red apart
Red Skelton took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1952, at 39.
The working life starts in 1923, at 10.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Wikipedia's editors put Red Skelton under CBS Radio programs, 1940s American radio programs and 1930s American radio programs.
Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1978), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (1961) and Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series, Drama (1959)
- Working from
- 1923
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
Red, according to the stars
Core essence
Red feels the room before entering it. The core of Red is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Red, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Red wants to be loved
Red 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 Red like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Red creates
How Red makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Red 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: Red 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Red 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Red 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 Red's birth date. Working below.
Where Red sits
Six lines
Red’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 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 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 Red Skelton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vincennes 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 Vincennes that night
Computed for 38.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vincennes was Rastaban, in Draco, 75.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.7°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 −51.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vincennes, United States
The death is recorded at Rancho Mirage, Riverside County in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Red Skelton: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Red's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 2 unaspected planets · 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 →Red Skelton at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Red Skelton's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Red Skelton was born on July 18, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Red Skelton's birth date, July 18, 1913, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Red’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Red Skelton's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Red Skelton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Red’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Red’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileMars2.6° to 2.9° orb
Red’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.7° to 3.4° orb
Red’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.5° to 5.0° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.7° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Red’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°42′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 17°44′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°28′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.5°
Red’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Red’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.4°
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Red’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Red’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1277029 (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 Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Red Skelton at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Red Skelton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Red Skelton?
- Red Skelton was a Cancer: born July 18, 1913, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Red Skelton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1913 birth.
- What was Red Skelton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Red Skelton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Red Skelton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Red Skelton's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
