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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ruby’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ruby sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ruby Dee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Ruby’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarssquareJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb
Ruby’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
Ruby’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.7° orb
Ruby’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb
Ruby’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
Ruby’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn4.7° to 4.9° orb
Ruby’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 5.8° orb
Ruby’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSuntrineUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb
Ruby’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°23′ (moves 0.04° 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: Ruby may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Ruby is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°04′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Ruby attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 25°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Ruby is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°54′ (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 Ruby 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.
- Chiron opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.3°
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°).
Ruby’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Ruby is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Ruby’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ruby Dee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ruby’s family here
One relative of Ruby Dee also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Ruby’s cards
Every card is computed from October 27, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ruby Dee, 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
Ruby’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234360, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- 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 time was Ruby Dee 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 Ruby Dee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the October 27, 1922 birth date.
- What was Ruby Dee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 27, 1922 birth date.
- 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.
