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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Sylvia
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
The SSA recorded 1,000 American girls named Sylvia in 1910: 92nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sylvia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sylvia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Sylvia apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film came in 1986, when Sylvia Sidney was 76.
Sylvia Sidney was taught at Washington Irving High School.
Sylvia Sidney was 19 when the work began in 1929.
Cause of death is recorded as esophageal cancer.
The family line: married Luther Adler and Bennett Cerf.
Wikipedia files Sylvia Sidney under Actresses from California, Jewish women non-fiction writers and Deaths from esophageal cancer in New York (state).
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Washington Irving High School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1986)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1929
- Cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
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. Working below.
Where Sylvia sits
Six lines
Sylvia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 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 Sylvia Sidney
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.2° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 15% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sylvia Sidney: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sylvia's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.3° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 1°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°54′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°45′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Sylvia’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Sylvia’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 semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Venus quintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 2.0°
More people like Sylvia
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Born in United States
- Paulette GoddardAmerican actress
- Edward S. MontgomeryAmerican journalist
- Walter ScharfAmerican composer and arranger
- Tennessee WilliamsAmerican playwright
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- Abe BurrowsAmerican dramatist and playwright
More charts like Sylvia’s
Fellow Leo suns
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- Mila KunisAmerican actress
- Halle BerryAmerican actress
Born in Dog years
- Jonathan DavisAmerican singer
- Ons JabeurTunisian tennis player
- Jackson WangChinese rapper and singer
Also born on August 8
- Roger Federer1981
- Paul Dirac1902
- Ernest Lawrence1901
- Roger Penrose1931
- Shawn Mendes1998
- Alysa Liu2005
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Paul WilliamsAmerican composer, singer, songwriter and actor
- Tony RenisItalian singer
- John WayneAmerican actor
Other Leo Dog charts
- Hakeem JeffriesAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Abbie CornishAustralian actress (1982-)
- Anthony AndersonAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Devon AokiAmerican actress and fashion model
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Stephon CastleAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Tre JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
- BladeeSwedish rapper (born 1994)
- Olivia RodrigoAmerican singer and actress (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Daniel Dae KimSouth Korean-American actor
- Kiri Te KanawaNew Zealand opera singer
- Lee PaceAmerican actor
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Sylvia’s cards
Computed from August 8, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sylvia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q231595 (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 CINEGRAF magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sylvia Sidney at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sylvia Sidney.
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.
- 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 was Sylvia Sidney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sylvia Sidney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
