Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (born January 30, 1937, Blackheath, United Kingdom), aged 89, is a British actress and activist (born 1937). Redgrave has served as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Redgrave's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and BAFTA Fellowship.
Vanessa Redgrave’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Vanessa Redgrave’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Vanessa in the U.S.?
#377
US rank in 2025
~262,606
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Vanessa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Vanessa, according to the stars
Core essence
Vanessa is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Vanessa is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Vanessa wants to be loved
Vanessa wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Vanessa, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Vanessa creates
How Vanessa 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. Vanessa 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: Vanessa 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Vanessa is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Vanessa runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Vanessa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Vanessa sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Vanessa Redgrave's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Vanessa Redgrave was born on January 30, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Vanessa Redgrave's birth date, January 30, 1937, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Vanessa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vanessa Redgrave's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire.
- Vanessa Redgrave combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Vanessa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Vanessa Redgrave, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° 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.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 6.8° orb
Vanessa’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Vanessa’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.5° to 0.8° orb
Vanessa’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb
Vanessa’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.8° to 2.3° orb
Vanessa’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.8° orb
Vanessa’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.2° orb
Vanessa’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 3.7° orb
Vanessa’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileMars3.7° orb
Vanessa’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
Vanessa’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
Vanessa’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.5° to 7.4° orb
Vanessa’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Vanessa’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 ℞Gemini 18°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Vanessa turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°06′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Vanessa caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°24′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Vanessa is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°39′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Vanessa is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°11′ (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. Vanessa 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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.5°
- Eros opposition Pluto 3.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 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°).
Vanessa’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. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Vanessa is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Vanessa’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.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 sesquiquadrate Mars 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vanessa Redgrave, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Vanessa’s family here
3 relatives of Vanessa Redgrave also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Vanessa’s cards
Every card is computed from January 30, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Vanessa Redgrave, 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
Vanessa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q347879, 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 Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vanessa Redgrave at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Vanessa Redgrave.
Quick answers about Vanessa Redgrave’s chart
- How old is Vanessa Redgrave?
- Vanessa Redgrave is 89 years old, born January 30, 1937 in Blackheath, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Vanessa Redgrave?
- Vanessa Redgrave is an Aquarius: born January 30, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- What is Vanessa Redgrave's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1937 birth.
- What time was Vanessa Redgrave 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 is Vanessa Redgrave's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 30, 1937 birth date.
- What is Vanessa Redgrave's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 30, 1937 birth date.
- Where is Vanessa Redgrave's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Vanessa Redgrave's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
