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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (born July 26, 1928, The Bronx, United States; died 1999), was an American filmmaker and photographer. Kubrick is best remembered for Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. Kubrick's honours include Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Stanley Kubrick’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Stanley Kubrick’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#863

US rank in 2025

~302,862

Americans share it since 1880

1954

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Stanley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Stanley, according to the stars

Core essence

Stanley is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Stanley is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Stanley wants to be loved

Stanley wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Stanley openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Stanley creates

How Stanley makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Stanley creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Stanley is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stanley is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Stanley 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 Stanley's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Stanley sits

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Stanley’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Stanley

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stanley

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

PrivateExpressive
Stanley

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stanley

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

PracticalVisionary
Stanley

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stanley

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 The Bronx on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Stanley Kubrick's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Stanley Kubrick's birth date, July 26, 1928, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Stanley’s chart

Stanley’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Stanley Kubrick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.9° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 4.6° orbSun in Leo · 3°23′Moon in Scorpio · 25°47′25°Mercury in Cancer · 14°28′14°Venus in Leo · 10°18′10°Mars in Taurus · 21°08′21°Jupiter in Taurus · 8°30′Saturn in Sagittarius · 12°52′ · retrograde12°Uranus in Aries · 7°19′ · retrogradeNeptune in Leo · 27°57′27°Pluto in Cancer · 17°08′17°

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.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.2° to 2.4° orb

    Stanley’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.9° to 3.2° orb

    Stanley’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.0° to 3.3° orb

    Stanley’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb

    Stanley’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSuntrineUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb

    Stanley’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssextilePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb

    Stanley’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb

    Stanley’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb

    Stanley’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.8° to 7.1° orb

    Stanley’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 2.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Stanley’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.

  • ChironTaurus 10°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Stanley building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresPisces 17°26′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Stanley is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ErosPisces 17°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Stanley is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaCapricorn 19°37′ (moves 0.18° 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. Stanley is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Stanley is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron square Venus 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Eros trine Pluto 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.5°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 3.0°

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°).

Stanley’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. 1. Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Stanley is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Stanley’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Sun quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stanley Kubrick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Stanley

Joe Jackson (talent manager) was born on July 26, 1928 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Stanley’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

yang Earth

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Fire

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Stanley Kubrick, 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

Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2001, 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 Phillip A. Harrington, an American photographer and staffer for Look magazine between 1949–1971, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Stanley Kubrick at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stanley Kubrick.

Quick answers about Stanley Kubrick’s chart

What zodiac sign was Stanley Kubrick?
Stanley Kubrick was a Leo: born July 26, 1928, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
What was Stanley Kubrick's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1928 birth.
What time was Stanley Kubrick 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 Stanley Kubrick?
Stanley Kubrick was 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Stanley Kubrick's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 26, 1928 birth date.
What was Stanley Kubrick's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 26, 1928 birth date.
Where was Stanley Kubrick's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Stanley Kubrick's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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