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Virginia Cherrill

Virginia Cherrill (born April 12, 1908, Carthage, United States; died 1996), was an American actress. Cherrill's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Virginia Cherrill’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Virginia Cherrill’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Virginia in the U.S.?

#526

US rank in 2025

~654,968

Americans share it since 1880

1922

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,195 American girls named Virginia in 1908: 35th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Virginia’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on V (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Virginia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Crimson · Gold

The record

What sets Virginia apart

Lisa Gerrard (1961) and Claire Danes (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Virginia, according to the stars

Core essence

Virginia leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Virginia is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Virginia is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Virginia needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Virginia wants to be loved

Virginia 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 Virginia like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Virginia creates

How Virginia 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. Virginia 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: Virginia is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Virginia 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. Virginia scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Virginia's birth date. Working below.

Where Virginia sits

Six lines

Virginia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Virginia

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Virginia

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Virginia

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Virginia

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Virginia

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Virginia

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Virginia Cherrill

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Carthage 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 Carthage that night

Computed for 40.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Carthage was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 88.4° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

Carthage sits at 40.4°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 −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon up and 87% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Virginia's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all

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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Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Virginia Cherrill's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 12, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Virginia Cherrill was born on April 12, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Virginia Cherrill's birth date, April 12, 1908, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Virginia’s chart

Virginia’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 0.7° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.8° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.9° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.9° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.3° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Aries · 22°25′☉22°Moon in Virgo · 6°40′☽6°Mercury in Pisces · 29°41′☿29°Venus in Gemini · 7°22′♀7°Mars in Gemini · 3°44′♂3°Jupiter in Leo · 3°50′♃3°Saturn in Aries · 2°58′♄2°Uranus in Capricorn · 16°53′♅16°Neptune in Cancer · 12°11′♆12°Pluto in Gemini · 23°01′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.2° orb

    Virginia’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Virginia’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb

    Virginia’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.4° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Virginia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 22°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 8°19′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 14°56′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 14°12′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.0°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 2.7°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.7°

Virginia’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Virginia’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Virginia’s family here

One relative of Virginia Cherrill also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Virginia’s cards

Computed from April 12, 1908. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Virginia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13435675 (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 Lansing Brown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Virginia Cherrill 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 Virginia Cherrill.

Quick answers about Virginia Cherrill’s chart

What zodiac sign was Virginia Cherrill?
Virginia Cherrill was an Aries: born April 12, 1908, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Virginia Cherrill's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1908 birth.
What was Virginia Cherrill's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Virginia Cherrill's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Virginia Cherrill's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Virginia Cherrill's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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