Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley; November 5, 1913, Darjeeling, India; died 1967), was a British actress. Notable films include Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire and Ship of Fools. Leigh's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
Vivien Leigh’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Vivien
Vivien Leigh’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Vivien in the U.S.?
#1854
US rank in 2025
~7,429
Americans share it since 1885
2014
its peak year
The SSA recorded 38 American girls and 5 boys named Vivien in 1913: 866th among girls and 3,240th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vivien’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Vivian Mary Hartley, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on V (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vivien’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Vivien apart
The Academy Award for Best Actress came in 1952, when Vivien Leigh was 39.
Vivien Leigh was taught at Loreto Convent and Woldingham School.
Vivien Leigh was 22 when the work began in 1935.
Cause of death is recorded as tuberculosis.
On the family side, Vivien Leigh was born to Ernest Richard Hartley, married Laurence Olivier and Herbert Leigh Holman and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Vivien Leigh under British people of Armenian descent, Actresses from Darjeeling and Olivier family.
Art Garfunkel (1941) and Eliud Kipchoge (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Loreto Convent, Woldingham School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1963) and Academy Award for Best Actress (1952)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1935
- Cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 108
What the chart says
Vivien, according to the stars
Core essence
Vivien does not do surface. The core of Vivien is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Vivien is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Vivien needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Vivien needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Vivien wants to be loved
Vivien wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Vivien gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Vivien creates
How Vivien makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Vivien creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Vivien is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Vivien is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Vivien does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Vivien's birth date. Working below.
Where Vivien sits
Six lines
Vivien’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Vivien Leigh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Darjeeling 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 Darjeeling that night
Computed for 27.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Darjeeling at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Darjeeling sits at 27.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −63.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Acrux were never visible from Darjeeling on any night.
Sun 55° below the horizon, Moon up and 49% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Vivian Mary Hartley
- Known as
- Vivien Leigh
- Born in
- Darjeeling, India
The death is recorded at Eaton Square, City of Westminster in 1967.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Vivien Leigh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Vivien's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Vivien Leigh's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Vivien Leigh was born on November 5, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Vivien Leigh's birth date, November 5, 1913, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Vivien’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vivien Leigh's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vivien Leigh combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Vivien’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aquarius 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
stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb
Vivien’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.9° to 2.2° orb
Vivien’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.2° to 1.9° orb
Vivien’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 6.7° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 6.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 2.2° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 4.3° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Vivien’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 10°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°28′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 17°36′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 23°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Vivien’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun
Configurations in Vivien’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 biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Vivien’s family here
One relative of Vivien Leigh also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Vivien
Other actors
- Karl Malden1912
- Tyrone Power1914
- Wendy Hiller1912
- Arthur Kennedy1914
- Lee J. Cobb1911
- Jack Cardiff1914
Born in India
- Shiv NadarIndian businessman
- Adi GodrejIndian businessman
- Srinivasa RamanujanIndian mathematician
- Michael BatesBritish actor
- Salman RushdieIndian-born English and American novelist
- Nusli WadiaIndian businessman (born 1944)
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- Barbara Bel GeddesAmerican actress
- John MegnaAmerican actor
- Gunnar BjörnstrandSwedish actor
Born in Ox years
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- Lucas PaquetáBrazilian association football player
- Unai SimónSpanish footballer (born 1997)
Also born on November 5
- Art Garfunkel1941
- Eliud Kipchoge1984
- Kris Jenner1955
- AuronPlay1988
- Ryan Adams1974
- Famke Janssen1964
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Gwyneth LewisBritish poet (1959-)
- Gurney NormanAmerican writer and professor from Virginia
- El JonesCanadian journalist, professor, activist
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Other Gilded Guardians
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- Tristan TateAmerican-British Internet personality and kickboxer
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Matias Fernandez-PardoBelgian footballer (born 2005)
- Joan GarciaSpanish footballer (born 2001)
- Chemsdine TalbiMoroccan footballer
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Vivien’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vivien’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129429 (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 Fawcett Publications, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vivien Leigh 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 Vivien Leigh.
Quick answers about Vivien Leigh’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vivien Leigh?
- Vivien Leigh was a Scorpio: born November 5, 1913, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Vivien Leigh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1913 birth.
- What was Vivien Leigh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Vivien Leigh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Vivien Leigh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vivien Leigh's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
