Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (born May 26, 1923, Guernsey, United Kingdom; died 2017), was a British actor. Dotrice's honours include Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Drama Desk Awards.
Roy Dotrice’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Roy Dotrice’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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~411,331
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Roy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Roy, according to the stars
Core essence
Roy is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Roy needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Roy cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Roy needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Roy wants to be loved
Roy wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Roy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Roy creates
How Roy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Roy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Roy is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Roy scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Roy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Roy Dotrice's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Roy Dotrice was born on May 26, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Roy Dotrice's birth date, May 26, 1923, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Roy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roy Dotrice's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Roy Dotrice combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Roy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roy Dotrice, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Roy’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.9° orb
Roy’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.8° orb
Roy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextilePluto3.4° to 4.6° orb
Roy’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.9° orb
Roy’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
Roy’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.1° to 6.4° orb
Roy’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.3° to 5.8° orb
Roy’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.6° to 5.8° orb
Roy’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Roy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 19°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Roy may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 13°55′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Roy is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 9°29′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Roy is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°43′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Roy needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Roy carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.2°
- Eros square Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.7°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.5°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Roy’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Roy is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Roy’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roy Dotrice, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Roy’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roy Dotrice, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Roy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q929933, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by soldier2005, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roy Dotrice at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Roy Dotrice’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roy Dotrice?
- Roy Dotrice was a Gemini: born May 26, 1923, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Roy Dotrice's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1923 birth.
- What time was Roy Dotrice born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Roy Dotrice's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1923 birth date.
- What was Roy Dotrice's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Roy Dotrice's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roy Dotrice's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
