Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (born April 5, 1900, Milwaukee, United States; died 1967), was an American actor. Tracy's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
Spencer Tracy’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Spencer Tracy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Spencer in the U.S.?
#360
US rank in 2025
~129,638
Americans share it since 1880
1998
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Spencer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Spencer, according to the stars
Core essence
Spencer leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Spencer is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Spencer creates
How Spencer 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. Spencer 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: Spencer is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Spencer 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 Spencer leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Spencer 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 Spencer's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Spencer sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Spencer Tracy's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Spencer Tracy was born on April 5, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Spencer Tracy's birth date, April 5, 1900, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Spencer’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Spencer Tracy's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Spencer Tracy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Spencer’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Spencer Tracy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSunsextilePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
Spencer’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.9° orb
Spencer’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileMars1.3° to 1.6° orb
Spencer’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.6° orb
Spencer’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
Spencer’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 3.4° orb
Spencer’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusoppositionPluto2.6° orb
Spencer’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
Spencer’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb
Spencer’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.3° orb
Spencer’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.2° orb
Spencer’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Spencer’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 ℞Sagittarius 24°60′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Spencer building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°12′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Spencer is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 29°40′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Spencer is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 4°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Spencer is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Spencer exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.0°
- Eros square Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Spencer’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Spencer is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Spencer’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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Spencer Tracy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Spencer’s cards
Every card is computed from April 5, 1900, 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
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Spencer Tracy, 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
Spencer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71275, 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (work for hire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Spencer Tracy 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 Spencer Tracy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Spencer Tracy?
- Spencer Tracy was an Aries: born April 5, 1900, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat.
- What was Spencer Tracy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1900 birth.
- What time was Spencer Tracy 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.
- How tall was Spencer Tracy?
- Spencer Tracy was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Spencer Tracy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1900 birth date.
- What was Spencer Tracy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1900 birth date.
- Where was Spencer Tracy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Spencer Tracy's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
