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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~10,447
Americans share it since 1880
1926
its peak year
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Wilford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Wilford Brimley in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Wilford Brimley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Wilford’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.4° to 4.8° orb
Wilford’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.5° to 4.9° orb
Wilford’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb
Wilford’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableUranussquarePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Wilford’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb
Wilford’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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 ℞Gemini 9°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Wilford turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCancer 20°25′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Wilford is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 29°32′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Wilford is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 21°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Wilford is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Wilford is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.4°
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°).
Wilford’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Wilford 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 Wilford’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.
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 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wilford Brimley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Wilford’s cards
Every card is computed from September 27, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Wilford Brimley, 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
Wilford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q712180, 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 Marc Majcher, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Wilford Brimley 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- 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 time was Wilford Brimley 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 Wilford Brimley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 27, 1934 birth date.
- What was Wilford Brimley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 27, 1934 birth date.
- 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.
