Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon (born October 30, 1896, Quincy, United States; died 1985), was an American actress and writer. Gordon's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Ruth Gordon’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ruth
Ruth Gordon’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ruth in the U.S.?
#173
US rank in 2025
~838,901
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
In 1896, 3,905 American girls and 12 boys were registered Ruth — 5th among girls and 667th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ruth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 9: care against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ruth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Ruth apart
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress came in 1969, when Ruth Gordon was 73.
Study took Ruth Gordon to Quincy High School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Ruth Gordon was 19 when the work began in 1915.
The record gives stroke as the cause, and Hancock Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Ruth Gordon was married Garson Kanin and Gregory Kelly.
On Wikipedia the categories read Neurological disease deaths in Massachusetts, Memoirists from Massachusetts and Kanin family.
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Quincy High School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1969), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1969) and Crystal Award (1983)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1915
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Buried at
- Hancock Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
What the chart says
Ruth, according to the stars
Core essence
Ruth does not do surface. The core of Ruth 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 Ruth is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Ruth needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Ruth needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Ruth wants to be loved
Ruth 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 Ruth and watch them fall for you again.
How Ruth creates
How Ruth 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. Ruth 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: Ruth is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ruth 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 Ruth 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. Ruth scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Ruth's birth date. Working below.
Where Ruth sits
Six lines
Ruth’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Dedicate a star to Ruth Gordon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Quincy 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 Quincy that night
Computed for 42.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Quincy at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 13.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Quincy sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Quincy at all: they sit past the −47.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 35% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Quincy, United States
The death is recorded at Edgartown, Dukes County in 1985.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ruth Gordon: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ruth's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Ruth Gordon's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Ruth Gordon was born on October 30, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Ruth Gordon's birth date, October 30, 1896, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Ruth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ruth Gordon's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ruth Gordon combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Ruth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.5° to 1.9° orb
Ruth’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.1° to 2.2° orb
Ruth’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.7° to 2.5° orb
Ruth’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.9° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 1.5° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ruth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 3°24′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 22°57′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°31′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°05′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.9°
Ruth’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ruth’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°
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Born in Monkey years
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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Other Radiant Scholars
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- Shaun TanAustralian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker (born 1974)
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Ruth’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ruth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232562 (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 Photographer Eileen Darby., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ruth Gordon 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 Ruth Gordon.
Quick answers about Ruth Gordon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ruth Gordon?
- Ruth Gordon was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1896, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Ruth Gordon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1896 birth.
- What was Ruth Gordon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ruth Gordon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ruth Gordon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ruth Gordon's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
