Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (born August 8, 1910, The Bronx, United States; died 1999), was an American actress. Sidney's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sylvia Sidney’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Sylvia Sidney’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Sylvia in the U.S.?
#300
US rank in 2025
~245,978
Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sylvia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sylvia, according to the stars
Core essence
Sylvia is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sylvia 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 Sylvia wants to be loved
Sylvia wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sylvia gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Sylvia creates
How Sylvia 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. Sylvia 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: Sylvia 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Sylvia is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Sylvia channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Sylvia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Sylvia Sidney's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1910, 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.
Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Sylvia Sidney was born on August 8, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Sylvia Sidney's birth date, August 8, 1910, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Sylvia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sylvia Sidney's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Sylvia Sidney combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Sylvia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sylvia Sidney, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb
Sylvia’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 3.1° orb
Sylvia’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.0° to 3.0° orb
Sylvia’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 3.4° orb
Sylvia’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.3° orb
Sylvia’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextilePluto3.9° to 4.5° orb
Sylvia’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter4.1° to 4.9° orb
Sylvia’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
Sylvia’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb
Sylvia’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.4° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 3.8° to 15.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sylvia’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 ℞Pisces 1°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Sylvia absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 22°54′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Sylvia looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°45′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Sylvia attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Sylvia is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°43′ (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. Sylvia 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 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Mars 0.1°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.6°
- Eros square Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Sylvia’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. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Sylvia 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 Sylvia’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 semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Venus quintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sylvia Sidney, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sylvia’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sylvia Sidney, 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
Sylvia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q231595, 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 CINEGRAF magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sylvia Sidney 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.
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Quick answers about Sylvia Sidney’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sylvia Sidney?
- Sylvia Sidney was a Leo: born August 8, 1910, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was Sylvia Sidney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1910 birth.
- What time was Sylvia Sidney 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.
- What was Sylvia Sidney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1910 birth date.
- What was Sylvia Sidney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1910 birth date.
- Where was Sylvia Sidney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sylvia Sidney's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
