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Sally Kirkland

Sally Kirkland (born October 31, 1941, New York City, United States; died 2025), was an American actress, film producer, and activist. Kirkland's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

Sally Kirkland’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Sally Kirkland’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Sally in the U.S.?

#1158

US rank in 2025

~205,876

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1941, Sally came 61st among girls and 1,522nd among boys, carried by 3,965 American girls and 21 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sally’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Sally’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Sally apart

Sally Kirkland took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama in 1988, at 47.

Training came by way of American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

The working life starts in 1960, at 19.

The family line: born to Sally Kirkland and Frederic McMichael Kirkland.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Sally Kirkland: The Masters School alumni, Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and Actresses from Philadelphia.

Peter Jackson (1961) and Dunga (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1988)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actress
Working from
1960
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Sally, according to the stars

Core essence

Sally does not do surface. The core of Sally 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 Sally is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Sally wants to be loved

Sally 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 Sally and watch them fall for you again.

How Sally creates

How Sally makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sally creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Sally is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Sally is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Sally gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Sally's birth date. Working below.

Where Sally sits

Six lines

Sally’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Sally

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sally

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Sally

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sally

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Sally

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sally

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sally Kirkland

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 92% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Palm Springs, Riverside County in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sally Kirkland: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Sally's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Venus · Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Sally Kirkland's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 31, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Sally Kirkland was born on October 31, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Sally Kirkland's birth date, October 31, 1941, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Sally’s chart

Sally’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.4° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.7° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 7°53′☉7°Moon in Aries · 0°42′☽0°Mercury in Libra · 28°13′ · retrograde☿℞28°Venus in Sagittarius · 23°42′♀23°Mars in Aries · 11°42′ · retrograde♂℞11°Jupiter in Gemini · 20°41′ · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Taurus · 26°25′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Taurus · 29°10′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Virgo · 28°52′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 5°47′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb

    Sally’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.3° orb

    Sally’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb

    Sally’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.4° to 12.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Sally’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 13°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°10′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 22°11′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 6°20′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.5°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.7°

Sally’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Sally’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.

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.1°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.8°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Sally’s cards

Computed from October 31, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sally’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235221 (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 BrianToPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sally Kirkland at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sally Kirkland.

Quick answers about Sally Kirkland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Sally Kirkland?
Sally Kirkland was a Scorpio: born October 31, 1941, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Sally Kirkland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 31, 1941 birth.
How tall was Sally Kirkland?
Sally Kirkland was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Sally Kirkland's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Sally Kirkland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Sally Kirkland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Sally Kirkland's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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