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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Ox, with 
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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.
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~7,429
Americans share it since 1880
2014
its peak year
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Vivien’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Vivien Leigh, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aquarius 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.
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
Vivien’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.5° to 5.6° orb
Vivien’s affections grind against their growth.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.6° orb
Vivien’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 6.7° orb
Vivien’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Pisces 10°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Vivien absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°28′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Vivien is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 17°36′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Vivien is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 23°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Vivien is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Vivien is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Vivien’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Vivien is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Vivien’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vivien Leigh, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Vivien’s family here
One relative of Vivien Leigh also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Vivien’s cards
Every card is computed from November 5, 1913, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Vivien Leigh, 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
Vivien’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129429, 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 Fawcett Publications, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vivien Leigh 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
- 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 time was Vivien Leigh 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 was Vivien Leigh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 5, 1913 birth date.
- What was Vivien Leigh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 5, 1913 birth date.
- 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.
