Wilford Brimley
Wilford Brimley (born September 27, 1934, Salt Lake City, United States; died 2020), was an American actor and singer.
Wilford Brimley’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Wilford
Wilford Brimley’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Wilford in the U.S.?
#8872
US rank in 2025
~10,447
Americans share it since 1880
1926
its peak year
Wilford ranked 397th in 1934, the year of this birth, with 193 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wilford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Wilford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Wilford apart
Juilliard School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1969, at 35.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney disease.
On the family side, Wilford Brimley was married Lynne Bagley and Beverly Berry.
Wikipedia's editors put Wilford Brimley under Male actors from Wyoming, Quaker Oats Company people and Military personnel from Utah.
Avril Lavigne (1984) and Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Juilliard School
- Working from
- 1969
- Cause of death
- kidney disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Wilford, according to the stars
Core essence
Wilford makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Wilford is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Wilford wants to be loved
Wilford wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Wilford and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Wilford creates
How Wilford makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Wilford creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Wilford is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Wilford is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Wilford fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Wilford's birth date. Working below.
Where Wilford sits
Six lines
Wilford’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Wilford Brimley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City that night
Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Salt Lake City at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 73% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Salt Lake City, United States
The death is recorded at St. George, Washington County in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Wilford Brimley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Wilford's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Pluto · 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.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Wilford Brimley's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 27, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Wilford Brimley was born on September 27, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Wilford Brimley's birth date, September 27, 1934, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Wilford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wilford Brimley's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Wilford Brimley combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Wilford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Wilford’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.5° orb
Wilford’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
Wilford’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.4° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.6° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.7° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Wilford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 20°25′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 29°32′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 21°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°51′ (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 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.4°
Wilford’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Wilford’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on September 27
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- Gwyneth Paltrow1972
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Lee PaceAmerican actor
- Maddie ZieglerAmerican dancer and actress
- Matthew Gray GublerAmerican actor, filmmaker and model
Other Libra Dog charts
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- John BrunnerBritish author
Other Gilded Strategists
- Martha PlimptonAmerican actress
- Soon-Yi Previnwife of Woody Allen
- Connor StorrieAmerican actor (born 2000)
- Ashlee SimpsonAmerican singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jane Gentry VanceAmerican poet and college professor from Kentucky
- El JonesCanadian journalist, professor, activist
- Andrew Motionpoet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Wilford’s cards
Computed from September 27, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wilford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q712180 (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 Marc Majcher, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Wilford Brimley at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Wilford Brimley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Wilford Brimley?
- Wilford Brimley was a Libra: born September 27, 1934, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Wilford Brimley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 27, 1934 birth.
- What was Wilford Brimley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Wilford Brimley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Wilford Brimley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Wilford Brimley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
