Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff (born September 15, 1903, Maynardville, United States; died 1992), was an American country music singer and fiddler. Acuff's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and National Medal of Arts.
Roy Acuff’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Roy
Roy Acuff’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Roy in the U.S.?
#525
US rank in 2025
~411,331
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1903, 975 American boys were registered Roy — 22nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roy’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 Y (7). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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 1903, 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 Roy apart
The star on Hollywood Walk of Fame came in 1960, when Roy Acuff was 57.
Study took Roy Acuff to Central High School.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Spring Hill Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Burials at Spring Hill Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee), Blackface minstrel performers and Music of East Tennessee.
Wilfred C. Barber shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Central High School
- Instruments
- violin, voice and fiddle
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987) and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Spring Hill Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
What the chart says
Roy, according to the stars
Core essence
Roy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Roy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Roy wants to be loved
Roy wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Roy and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Roy creates
How Roy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Roy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Roy is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Roy 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 Roy leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Roy 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 Roy's birth date. Working below.
Where Roy sits
Six lines
Roy’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Roy Acuff
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Maynardville 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 Maynardville that night
Computed for 36.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Maynardville at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
Maynardville sits at 36.2°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 −53.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 33% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Maynardville, United States
The death is recorded at Nashville, Davidson County in 1992.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roy Acuff: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Roy's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Roy Acuff's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Roy Acuff was born on September 15, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Roy Acuff's birth date, September 15, 1903, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Roy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roy Acuff's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Roy Acuff combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Roy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Roy’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Roy’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsquarePluto0.5° to 1.4° orb
Roy’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionPluto1.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.7° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.1° to 4.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Roy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 17°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 9°17′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 26°28′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.0°
Roy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Roy’s chart
Grand cross · Uranus, Pluto, Sun, JupiterTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Uranus, Pluto, Venus, JupiterTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
Born the same day as Roy
Wilfred C. Barber was born on September 15, 1903 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Maynardville, at 36.2°N, nothing below −53.8° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on September 15
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Ron HowardAmerican film director, producer, and actor
- Peter FacinelliAmerican actor
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Other Virgo Rabbit charts
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Other Radiant Storytellers
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- Ben McKenzieAmerican actor (born 1978)
- Sanaa LathanAmerican actress
- Matt LauerAmerican journalist (1957-)
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Roy’s cards
Computed from September 15, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q455773 (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 Walden S. Fabry/Ross Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roy Acuff 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 Roy Acuff.
Quick answers about Roy Acuff’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roy Acuff?
- Roy Acuff was a Virgo: born September 15, 1903, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Roy Acuff's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1903 birth.
- What was Roy Acuff's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roy Acuff's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Roy Acuff's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roy Acuff's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
