Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan (born February 21, 1934, Healdton, United States, 19:00; died 2010), was an American actress and comedian.
Rue McClanahan’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Rue McClanahan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Rue in the U.S.?
#1324
US rank in 2025
~1,884
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
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Rue’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · Forest
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The record
What sets Rue apart
W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rue, according to the stars
Core essence
Rue feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Rue is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Rue processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Rue needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Rue wants to be loved
Rue wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Rue be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Rue creates
How Rue makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Rue creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Rue 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Rue is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Rue slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Rue's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Rue McClanahan's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Rue McClanahan was born on February 21, 1934, which falls in a Wood 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 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Rue McClanahan's birth date, February 21, 1934, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Rue’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Rue McClanahan's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Moon in the 10th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Mars in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Rue McClanahan's timed chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Rue McClanahan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Rue’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 0.0° orb
Rue’s growth grinds against their depths.
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb
Rue’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 1.7° orb
Rue’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
Rue’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 2.4° orb
Rue’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsquareMarsapplying · 2.6° orb
Rue’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 2.8° orb
Rue’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurytrinePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
Rue’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoontrineVenusseparating · 3.2° orb
Rue’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 4.1° orb
Rue’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 5.7° orb
Rue’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rue’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 29°00′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Rue building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAries 25°51′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Rue looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 25°19′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Rue is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 3°22′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Rue is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°36′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Rue guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.4°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 3.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Rue’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
disposes Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Rue 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 Rue’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Pisces · 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Moon · Mars, Neptune, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Moon semi-square Uranus 1.9°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Rue’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 7 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | Jupiter | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 8 | Venus, Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 1 | Sun, Mercury, Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 7 | Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 7 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 10 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 7 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Rue’s cards
Every card is computed from February 21, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Rue’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230196, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rue McClanahan 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 Rue McClanahan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rue McClanahan?
- Rue McClanahan was a Pisces: born February 21, 1934, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Rue McClanahan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1934 birth.
- What time was Rue McClanahan born?
- 19:00 local time in Healdton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Rue McClanahan's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 19:00 birth time in Healdton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Rue McClanahan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 21, 1934 birth date.
- What was Rue McClanahan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 29°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 21, 1934 birth time.
- Where was Rue McClanahan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rue McClanahan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
