Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918, New York City, United States; died 1987), was an American actress. Hayworth is best remembered for The Lady from Shanghai, Circus World and Gilda. Hayworth's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Rita Hayworth’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Rita
Rita Hayworth’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Rita in the U.S.?
#1287
US rank in 2025
~285,230
Americans share it since 1880
1949
its peak year
In 1918, 4,447 American girls and 11 boys were registered Rita — 58th among girls and 2,668th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rita’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Margarita Carmen Cansino, not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Rita apart
Gilda, Circus World and The Lady from Shanghai. That is the work the name is attached to.
Study took Rita Hayworth to Alexander Hamilton High School and Boys and Girls High School.
The record gives Alzheimer's disease as the cause, and Holy Cross Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Rita Hayworth was born to Volga Hayworth and Eduardo Cansino, Sr., married Orson Welles and James Hill and raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) alumni, American racehorse owners and breeders and Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.
Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Gilda, Circus World and The Lady from Shanghai
- Educated at
- Alexander Hamilton High School and Boys and Girls High School
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama
- Working from
- 1923
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Buried at
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 104
What the chart says
Rita, according to the stars
Core essence
Rita makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Rita is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Rita is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Rita needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Rita wants to be loved
Rita wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Rita gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Rita creates
How Rita makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Rita creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Rita 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Rita 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 Rita leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Rita has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Rita's birth date. Working below.
Where Rita sits
Six lines
Rita’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Rita Hayworth
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 13.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Margarita Carmen Cansino
- Known as
- Rita Hayworth
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Rita Hayworth: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Rita's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Rita Hayworth's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Rita Hayworth was born on October 17, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Rita Hayworth's birth date, October 17, 1918, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Rita’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rita Hayworth's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rita Hayworth combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Rita’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Pisces 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Rita’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.6° orb
Rita’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.2° to 1.9° orb
Rita’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.2° to 2.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.9° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 5.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Rita’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°44′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 22°34′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 16°31′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.5°
Rita’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Rita’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.7°
Rita’s family here
One relative of Rita Hayworth also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Rita
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- James Donald1917
- Teresa Wright1918
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- Tim Holt1919
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Born in United States
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- William Morris MeredithAmerican poet
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- Leon KirchnerAmerican composer
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on October 17
- Eminem1972
- Arthur Miller1915
- Kimi Räikkönen1979
- Mae Jemison1956
- Wyclef Jean1969
- Ziggy Marley1968
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Arthur MitchellAmerican dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Leroy SanéGerman association football player
- Nicolás OtamendiArgentine association football player
Other Libra Horse charts
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- Bristol Palindaughter of Sarah Palin
Other Radiant Strategists
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Rita’s cards
Computed from October 17, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42745 (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 Columbia Pictures, photograph by Ned Scott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rita Hayworth 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 Rita Hayworth.
Quick answers about Rita Hayworth’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rita Hayworth?
- Rita Hayworth was a Libra: born October 17, 1918, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Rita Hayworth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1918 birth.
- How tall was Rita Hayworth?
- Rita Hayworth was 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Rita Hayworth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Rita Hayworth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Rita Hayworth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rita Hayworth's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
