Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1922, Cleveland, United States; died 2014), was an American actress. Dee's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Ruby Dee’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ruby
Ruby Dee’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ruby in the U.S.?
#64
US rank in 2025
~379,684
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1922, 8,003 American girls and 55 boys were registered Ruby — 26th among girls and 946th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ruby’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ruby’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1922, 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 Ruby apart
The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame came in 1975, when Ruby Dee was 53.
Study took Ruby Dee to Hunter College High School and Hunter College.
Ruby Dee was 18 when the work began in 1940.
The record gives disease as the cause, and Ferncliff Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married Ossie Davis.
On Wikipedia the categories read African-American history of Westchester County, New York, Actresses from New Rochelle, New York and Civil rights activists from New York (state).
Theodore Roosevelt (1858) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hunter College High School and Hunter College
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1991), Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1975) and Spingarn Medal (2008)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- disease
- Buried at
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Ruby, according to the stars
Core essence
Ruby does not do surface. The core of Ruby is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ruby is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Ruby wants to be loved
Ruby wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ruby and watch them fall for you again.
How Ruby creates
How Ruby makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ruby creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ruby 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 6 is the nurturer. Ruby is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ruby does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Ruby's birth date. Working below.
Where Ruby sits
Six lines
Ruby’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Ruby Dee
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cleveland at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 13.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Cleveland sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cleveland on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 55% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cleveland, United States
The death is recorded at New Rochelle, Westchester County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ruby Dee: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ruby's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Ruby Dee's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 27, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Ruby Dee was born on October 27, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Ruby Dee's birth date, October 27, 1922, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ruby’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ruby Dee's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Ruby Dee combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Ruby’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° 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
stableVenussquareUranus1.1° to 1.4° orb
Ruby’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranustrinePluto1.3° orb
Ruby’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.4° orb
Ruby’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 5.8° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ruby’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°04′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 25°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.3°
Ruby’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ruby’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.2°
Ruby’s family here
One relative of Ruby Dee also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Ruby
Other actors
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- Carl Duering1923
- Doris Day1922
- Anne Baxter1923
- Denholm Elliott1922
- Giustino Durano1923
Born in United States
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- Walter M. MillerAmerican fiction writer
- Leon M. LedermanAmerican mathematician and physicist
- Judith MerrilAmerican science fiction writer and editor
- Jason RobardsAmerican actor
- Anthony HechtAmerican poet
More charts like Ruby’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Tracy MorganAmerican actor and comedian
- Dylan McDermottAmerican actor
- Megan MullallyAmerican actress
Born in Dog years
- Colin JostAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1982)
- Regina KingAmerican actress and director (born 1971)
- Conor KennedyAmerican activist, eldest child of RFK Jr and Mary Richardson (1994)
Also born on October 27
- Theodore Roosevelt1858
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva1945
- Sylvia Plath1932
- Vanessa-Mae1978
- S. Robson Walton1944
- James Cook1728
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- RobinhoBrazilian former association football player
- Stephen CurryAmerican basketball player
- Christopher WalkenAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Dog charts
- Gerhart HauptmannGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
- Karl von FrischGerman-Austrian ethologist
- David RemnickAmerican journalist, writer and editor (born 1958)
- Annette Gordon-ReedAmerican historian
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Ralph McGillAmerican journalist
- Russel B. NyeAmerican academic
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
- Maggie HabermanAmerican journalist (born 1973)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Samuel BeckettIrish writer
- Robert De NiroAmerican actor
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf24th president of Liberia
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Ruby’s cards
Computed from October 27, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ruby’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234360 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ruby Dee 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 Ruby Dee.
Quick answers about Ruby Dee’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ruby Dee?
- Ruby Dee was a Scorpio: born October 27, 1922, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Ruby Dee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1922 birth.
- What was Ruby Dee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ruby Dee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ruby Dee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ruby Dee's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
