Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934, Lafayette, United States; died 2008), was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack is best remembered for Three Days of the Condor, Tootsie and Out of Africa. Pollack's honours include Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
Sydney Pollack’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Sydney
Sydney Pollack’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Sydney in the U.S.?
#348
US rank in 2025
~187,700
Americans share it since 1880
2000
its peak year
In 1934, 103 American girls and 80 boys were registered Sydney — 664th among girls and 681st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sydney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sydney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The record
What sets Sydney apart
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Sydney, according to the stars
Core essence
Sydney feels the room before entering it. The core of Sydney is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Sydney, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Sydney is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Sydney needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Sydney wants to be loved
Sydney wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Sydney like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Sydney creates
How Sydney makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Sydney creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Sydney is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Sydney is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Sydney scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Sydney's birth date. Working below.
Where Sydney sits
Six lines
Sydney’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Sydney Pollack
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lafayette 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 Lafayette that night
Computed for 40.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Lafayette at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
Lafayette sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lafayette at all: they sit past the −49.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 69% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual Sydney's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Fire planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Sydney Pollack's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Sydney Pollack was born on July 1, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Sydney Pollack's birth date, July 1, 1934, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Sydney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sydney Pollack's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- Sydney Pollack combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Sydney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.2° to 0.5° orb
Sydney’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
Sydney’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
Sydney’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.7° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.5° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.7° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.1° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Sydney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 6°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 17°31′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 9°53′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 4°04′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.9°
Sydney’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Sydney’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.5°
More people like Sydney
Other actors
- Roy Scheider1932
- Ronald Lacey1935
- Ellen Burstyn1932
- Chaim Topol1935
- Serge Merlin1932
- John Cazale1935
Born in United States
- Sydney SchanbergAmerican journalist
- Elvis PresleyAmerican singer and actor
- Florence HendersonAmerican actress and singer
- Howard TeminAmerican geneticist
- Rue McClanahanAmerican actress and comedian
- Carl SaganAmerican astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
More charts like Sydney’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Wole SoyinkaNigerian writer
- 50 CentAmerican rapper
- Mike TysonAmerican boxer and media personality
Born in Dog years
- MarquinhosBrazilian association football player (born 1994)
- D. J. ReaderAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Daniel CarlsonAmerican football player (born 1995)
Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
- Daniel Ricciardo1989
- Tate McRae2003
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Robert Lewis TaylorAmerican author
- Anne SextonAmerican poet
- Susan SheehanAmerican journalist
Other Cancer Dog charts
- Giorgio ArmaniItalian fashion designer
- Peter SingerAustralian moral philosopher
- Sophia BushAmerican actress
- Jared PadaleckiAmerican actor
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Eric DeckerAmerican football wide receiver
- Kelsey GrammerAmerican actor
- Candice KingAmerican actress and singer
- Jack McBrayerAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Wyclef JeanHaitian rapper
- Trent ReznorAmerican musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer
- Rachel BilsonAmerican actress
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Sydney’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sydney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51522 (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 Arthur from Westchester County north of NYC, USA, at Arthur@NYCArthur.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sydney Pollack 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 Sydney Pollack.
Quick answers about Sydney Pollack’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sydney Pollack?
- Sydney Pollack was a Cancer: born July 1, 1934, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Sydney Pollack's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1934 birth.
- How tall was Sydney Pollack?
- Sydney Pollack was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Sydney Pollack's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sydney Pollack's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sydney Pollack's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sydney Pollack's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
