Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927, Miami, United States; died 2022), was a Bahamian and American actor and diplomat. Poitier served as ambassador of the Bahamas. Poitier's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Sidney Poitier’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Sidney
Sidney Poitier’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sidney in the U.S.?
#1327
US rank in 2025
~108,987
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1927, Sidney came 127th among boys and 1,054th among girls, carried by 1,381 American boys and 54 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sidney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sidney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Sidney apart
Sidney Poitier took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama in 1963, at 36.
The working life starts in 1943, at 16.
On the family side, Sidney Poitier was married Juanita Hardy and Joanna Shimkus and raised one child.
The same date carries Hubert de Givenchy. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009), Academy Award for Best Actor (1964) and AFI Life Achievement Award (1992)
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
- Working from
- 1943
- Citizenship
- United States and The Bahamas
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
What the chart says
Sidney, according to the stars
Core essence
Sidney feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Sidney 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, Sidney cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Sidney needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Sidney wants to be loved
Sidney wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Sidney, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Sidney creates
How Sidney makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Sidney creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Sidney is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sidney is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Sidney is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Sidney's birth date. Working below.
Where Sidney sits
Six lines
Sidney’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Sidney Poitier
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami 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 Miami that night
Computed for 25.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Miami was Mebsuta, in Gemini, 89.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 25.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon down and 83% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Sidney's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Mars · No Air planets
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
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Sidney Poitier's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Sidney Poitier was born on February 20, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Sidney Poitier's birth date, February 20, 1927, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Sidney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sidney Poitier's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sidney Poitier combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Sidney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 20° Libra 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
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb
Sidney’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.5° to 0.7° orb
Sidney’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileUranus1.3° to 1.7° orb
Sidney’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars1.5° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.6° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.3° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sidney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 28°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 12°43′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°48′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 15°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
Sidney’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Sidney’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.4°
Born the same day as Sidney
Hubert de Givenchy was born on February 20, 1927 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 104 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Mebsuta nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Sidney
Other actors
- Donald O'Connor1925
- Nancy Marchand1928
- Charles Gordone1925
- Shirley Temple1928
- Julie Harris1925
- James Garner1928
Born in United States
- Chuck BerryAmerican musician
- F. Sherwood RowlandAmerican chemist
- Poul AndersonAmerican science fiction writer
- Martin Lewis PerlAmerican scientist
- Lawrence TurmanAmerican film producer
- Jerry StillerAmerican actor and comedian
More charts like Sidney’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Chelsea PerettiAmerican comedian and actress
- Whitney PortAmerican fashion designer
- Mikaela ShiffrinAmerican alpine skier (born 1995)
Born in Rabbit years
- Samira WileyAmerican actor and model
- Jill ZarinAmerican socialite and television personality (born 1963)
- Alexander IsakSwedish footballer (born 1999)
Also born on February 20
- Kurt Cobain1967
- Mitch McConnell1942
- Cindy Crawford1966
- Trevor Noah1984
- Hubert de Givenchy1927
- Shepherd Bushiri1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Arthur HendersonBritish politician
- Ludwig QuiddeGerman politician
- Adam RiessAmerican astrophysicist
Other Pisces Rabbit charts
- will.i.amAmerican rapper, singer, and record producer
- Madison BeerAmerican singer
- Rick RubinAmerican music producer
- Kenzō TakadaJapanese fashion designer
Other Evergreen Explorers
- Mitchell StarcAustralian international cricketer
- Princess Louise of BelgiumBelgian princess (born 2004)
- Emily BearAmerican composer and pianist
- Caleb WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
- Emily VanCampCanadian actress
- Tori SpellingAmerican actress
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Sidney’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104049 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sidney Poitier 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 Sidney Poitier.
Quick answers about Sidney Poitier’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sidney Poitier?
- Sidney Poitier was a Pisces: born February 20, 1927, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Sidney Poitier's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1927 birth.
- How tall was Sidney Poitier?
- Sidney Poitier was 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Sidney Poitier's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sidney Poitier's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sidney Poitier's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sidney Poitier's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
