Redd Foxx
Redd Foxx (born December 9, 1922, St. Louis, United States; died 1991), was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx is best remembered for Sanford and Sanford and Son. Foxx's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Redd Foxx’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Redd
Redd Foxx’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Redd in the U.S.?
#6725
US rank in 2025
~138
Americans share it since 2006
2022
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Redd falls under that line for 1922. Its peak came in 2022, and 138 Americans have carried it since 2006.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Redd’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Redd’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Redd apart
Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Redd, according to the stars
Core essence
Redd is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Redd 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Redd 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 Redd 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 Redd wants to be loved
Redd wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Redd even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Redd creates
How Redd makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Redd creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Redd is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Redd 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Redd goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Redd's birth date. Working below.
Where Redd sits
Six lines
Redd’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 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 Redd Foxx
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
St. Louis sits at 38.6°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 −51.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 67% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Redd's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Venus · 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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Redd Foxx's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Redd Foxx was born on December 9, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Redd Foxx's birth date, December 9, 1922, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Redd’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Redd Foxx's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Redd Foxx combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Redd’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
Redd’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
Redd’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Redd’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto0.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 1.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Redd’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°02′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn or Sagittarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°42′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.9°
Redd’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Redd’s chart
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on December 9
- Grace Hopper1906
- Simon Helberg1980
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Aaron NesmithAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Redd’s cards
Computed from December 9, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Redd’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q712024 (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 Coast Artists Inc. (management); photographer: John E. Reed, Hollywood., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Redd Foxx at Wikipedia, reddfoxx.com, 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 Redd Foxx.
Quick answers about Redd Foxx’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Redd Foxx?
- Redd Foxx was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1922, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Redd Foxx's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1922 birth.
- How tall was Redd Foxx?
- Redd Foxx was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Redd Foxx's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Redd Foxx's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Redd Foxx's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Redd Foxx's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
