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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Vanessa
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 1900
1985
its peak year
Vanessa ranked 1,994th in 1937, the year of this birth, with 17 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vanessa’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on V (4) 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
Vanessa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Vanessa apart
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) and Felipe VI of Spain (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Vanessa sits
Six lines
Vanessa’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Blackheath 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 Blackheath that night
Computed for 51.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Blackheath at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 82% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Vanessa's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · No Fire planets
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.
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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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° 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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.8° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.7° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.5° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 18°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°06′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°24′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°39′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Vanessa’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Vanessa’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Vanessa’s family here
3 relatives of Vanessa Redgrave also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
More people like Vanessa
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- David Newman1937
- Alfred Uhry1936
- Gary Lockwood1937
- Philip Kaufman1936
- Warren Beatty1937
- Larry McMurtry1936
Born in United Kingdom
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More charts like Vanessa’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Alice WalkerAmerican author and activist (born 1944)
- Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer
- Michel duCilleAmerican photojournalist
Born in Rat years
- Philip GlassAmerican composer (born 1937)
- Edward VillellaAmerican ballet dancer (born 1936)
- Ivan ToneyEnglish association football player
Also born on January 30
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt1882
- Felipe VI of Spain1968
- Christian Bale1974
- Tyla2002
- Kid Cudi1984
- Dick Cheney1941
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Treydan StukesAmerican football cornerback
- Carter RunyonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Eddy PineiroAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Aquarius Rat charts
- Carl IcahnAmerican businessman
- BluefaceAmerican rapper
- Strive MasiyiwaZimbabwean businessman
- Alan AldaAmerican actor (born 1936)
Other Radiant Guardians
- Sauce GardnerAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Jordon RileyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Tyler BassAmerican football placekicker
- Malcolm RoachAmerican football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Noussair MazraouiDutch-Moroccan footballer
- Francisco TrincãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Jean-Philippe MatetaFrench footballer (born 1997)
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Vanessa’s cards
Computed from January 30, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vanessa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q347879 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Vanessa Redgrave's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Vanessa Redgrave's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
