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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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1900, Spencer came 324th, carried by 44 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Spencer’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

2

Soul Urge · closeness

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on S (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Spencer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Spencer apart

Pharrell Williams (1973) and Lily James (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Spencer sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Spencer

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Spencer

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Spencer

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Spencer

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Spencer

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Spencer

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee that night

Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Milwaukee at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 43% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.

How unusual Spencer's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl

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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Aries Sun

Fires 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.

What Aries means →

Metal Rat

Saw the opening before you did.

Spencer Tracy was born on April 5, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Spencer Tracy's birth date, April 5, 1900, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Spencer’s chart

Spencer’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.5° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun in Aries · 15°30′☉15°Moon in Cancer · 2°31′☽2°Mercury in Pisces · 26°43′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Taurus · 29°32′♀29°Mars in Pisces · 28°07′♂28°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 10°45′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Capricorn · 4°59′♄4°Uranus in Sagittarius · 12°20′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Gemini · 24°29′♆24°Pluto in Gemini · 14°57′♇14°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto2.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.2° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 24°60′

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 5°12′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 29°40′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 4°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°56′ (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 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°

Spencer’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Spencer’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.

  • Venus biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°

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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

Computed from April 5, 1900. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Spencer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71275 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Spencer Tracy.

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.
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.
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.
What was Spencer Tracy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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