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Arnaldo Cortesi

Arnaldo Cortesi (born September 21, 1897, Rome, Italy; died 1966), was an American journalist and foreign correspondent. Cortesi's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.

Arnaldo Cortesi’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Arnaldo Cortesi’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#12182

US rank in 2025

~2,083

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Arnaldo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Arnaldo, according to the stars

Core essence

Arnaldo notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Arnaldo is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Arnaldo wants to be loved

Arnaldo wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Arnaldo openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Arnaldo creates

How Arnaldo makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Arnaldo creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Arnaldo is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Arnaldo is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Arnaldo leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Arnaldo fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Arnaldo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Arnaldo sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Arnaldo

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Arnaldo

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Arnaldo

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Arnaldo

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

PracticalVisionary
Arnaldo

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Arnaldo

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Arnaldo Cortesi

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

Arnaldo’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 85.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 11.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Arnaldo Cortesi's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Fire Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Arnaldo Cortesi was born on September 21, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Arnaldo Cortesi's birth date, September 21, 1897, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Arnaldo’s chart

Arnaldo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Arnaldo Cortesi, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbSun in Virgo · 28°42′☉28°Moon in Cancer · 24°52′☽24°Mercury in Libra · 0°50′ · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Leo · 23°46′♀23°Mars in Libra · 17°27′♂17°Jupiter in Virgo · 22°28′♃22°Saturn in Scorpio · 26°27′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 26°00′♅26°Neptune in Gemini · 22°33′♆22°Pluto in Gemini · 14°43′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Arnaldo’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Arnaldo’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.6° to 1.8° orb

    Arnaldo’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 3.2° orb

    Arnaldo’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.8° orb

    Arnaldo’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb

    Arnaldo’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb

    Arnaldo’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb

    Arnaldo’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.4° to 3.1° orb

    Arnaldo’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb

    Arnaldo’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.8° to 5.0° orb

    Arnaldo’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.9° to 4.1° orb

    Arnaldo’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

Arnaldo’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.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 12°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Arnaldo carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 5°02′ (moves 0.25° 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. Arnaldo is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 21°27′ (moves 0.88° 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. Arnaldo is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 5°52′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Arnaldo is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Arnaldo that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
  • Eros square Neptune 1.1°

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°).

Arnaldo’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. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Arnaldo is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Arnaldo’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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arnaldo Cortesi, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Arnaldo’s cards

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The Tidal Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Arnaldo Cortesi, 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

Arnaldo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2863023, 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.

The same Arnaldo Cortesi at Wikipedia.

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 Arnaldo Cortesi.

Quick answers about Arnaldo Cortesi’s chart

What zodiac sign was Arnaldo Cortesi?
Arnaldo Cortesi was a Virgo: born September 21, 1897, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
What was Arnaldo Cortesi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1897 birth.
What time was Arnaldo Cortesi 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 Arnaldo Cortesi's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1897 birth date.
What was Arnaldo Cortesi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1897 birth date.
Where was Arnaldo Cortesi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Arnaldo Cortesi's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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