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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (born November 14, 1900, Brooklyn, United States; died 1990), was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor. Copland's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Aaron Copland’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Aaron Copland’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#80

US rank in 2025

~618,857

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

In 1900, 104 American boys were registered Aaron — 193rd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Aaron’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Aaron’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1900, 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 Aaron apart

The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1925, when Aaron Copland was 25.

Study took Aaron Copland to Boys High School and Fontainebleau Schools.

Cause of death is recorded as respiratory failure.

On Wikipedia the categories read ASCAP composers and authors and American ballet composers.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Boys High School, Fontainebleau Schools and Boys and Girls High School
Instruments
piano
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), Guggenheim Fellowship (1925) and Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment and Academy Award for Best Original Score
Cause of death
respiratory failure
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Aaron, according to the stars

Core essence

Aaron does not do surface. The core of Aaron 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 Aaron is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Aaron wants to be loved

Aaron 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. Aaron gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Aaron creates

How Aaron makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Aaron 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: Aaron is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Aaron 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 Aaron 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 Aaron's birth date. Working below.

Where Aaron sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Aaron

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Aaron

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Aaron

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Aaron

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Aaron

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Aaron

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Aaron’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 42° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.

Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.

The Moon, 41% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Brooklyn, United States

The death is recorded at Sleepy Hollow, Mount Pleasant in 1990.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Aaron Copland: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Aaron's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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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Aaron Copland at a glance

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Aaron Copland's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Rat

Saw the opening before you did.

Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Aaron Copland's birth date, November 14, 1900, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Aaron’s chart

Aaron’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.8° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.4° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.6° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 21°53′☉21°Moon in Leo · 28°35′☽28°Mercury in Sagittarius · 4°29′ · retrograde☿℞4°Venus in Libra · 12°50′♀12°Mars in Leo · 26°10′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 15°19′♃15°Saturn in Capricorn · 2°24′♄2°Uranus in Sagittarius · 11°28′♅11°Neptune in Gemini · 28°46′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Gemini · 17°09′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.8° to 1.9° orb

    Aaron’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.7° to 2.0° orb

    Aaron’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Aaron’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.4° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars4.0° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.6° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 23°40′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 8°50′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Taurus 17°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°45′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.5°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.9°

Aaron’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Aaron’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 Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.7°

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Aaron’s cards

Computed from November 14, 1900. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Aaron’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192185 (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 CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Aaron Copland at Wikipedia, aaroncopland.com, 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 Aaron Copland.

Quick answers about Aaron Copland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Aaron Copland?
Aaron Copland was a Scorpio: born November 14, 1900, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Aaron Copland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1900 birth.
What was Aaron Copland's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Aaron Copland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Aaron Copland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Aaron Copland's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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