Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel (born Arthur Ira Garfunkel; November 5, 1941, Forest Hills, United States), aged 85, is an American singer. Best-known releases include Angel Clare, Scissors Cut and Breakaway. Garfunkel's honours include John Jay Award.
Art Garfunkel’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Art
Art Garfunkel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Art in the U.S.?
#3382
US rank in 2025
~6,146
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 92 American boys named Art in 1941: 636th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Art’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Arthur Ira Garfunkel, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Art’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 8 · 9
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
The record
What sets Art apart
Study took Art Garfunkel to Teachers College and Forest Hills High School.
Art Garfunkel was 15 when the work began in 1956.
On the family side, Art Garfunkel was married Kim Garfunkel and raised one child.
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Eliud Kipchoge (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Teachers College, Forest Hills High School and Columbia University
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Working from
- 1956
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Art, according to the stars
Core essence
Art does not do surface. The core of Art 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 Art is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Art wants to be loved
Art wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Art and watch them fall for you again.
How Art creates
How Art makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Art creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Art is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Art is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Art gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Art's birth date. Working below.
Where Art sits
Six lines
Art’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Art Garfunkel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Forest Hills 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 Forest Hills that night
Computed for 40.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Forest Hills at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 11.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Forest Hills 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 Forest Hills on any night.
The Moon, 96% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Arthur Ira Garfunkel
- Known as
- Art Garfunkel
- Born in
- Forest Hills, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Art Garfunkel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Art's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Art Garfunkel's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Art Garfunkel was born on November 5, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22The cathedral builder.
Art Garfunkel's birth date, November 5, 1941, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Art’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Art Garfunkel's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- Art Garfunkel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Art’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° 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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Art’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Art’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.5° orb
Art’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 4.7° to 16.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Art’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 14°09′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 26°17′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°33′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Ceres square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.0°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.9°
Art’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Art’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.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.7°
More people like Art
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- Rufus1942
- Plácido Domingo1941
- Calvin Klein1942
- Neil Diamond1941
- Amitabh Bachchan1942
Born in United States
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- Carole KingAmerican singer-songwriter and musician (born 1942)
- Joe RickettsAmerican businessman (born 1941)
- Barry DillerAmerican businessman (born 1942)
- Bernard L. SteinAmerican journalist
- Muhammad AliAmerican boxer
More charts like Art’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Aishwarya RaiIndian actress
- Martin ScorseseAmerican filmmaker
- Anne HathawayAmerican actress
Born in Snake years
- Viatcheslav Moshe KantorRussian businessman
- Hiroshi Mikitanifounder of Rakuten
- Stanley DruckenmillerAmerican businessman
Also born on November 5
- Vivien Leigh1913
- Eliud Kipchoge1984
- Kris Jenner1955
- AuronPlay1988
- Ryan Adams1974
- Famke Janssen1964
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Robert Jackson BennettAmerican writer
- Robert BlochAmerican fiction writer
- Robert J. SawyerCanadian science fiction writer (born 1960)
Other Scorpio Snake charts
- Frances ConroyAmerican actress
- Joan PlowrightBritish actress
- Sally KirklandAmerican actress, film producer, and activist
- Ryan MurphyAmerican screenwriter (born 1965)
Other Radiant Architects
- Leandro ParedesArgentine footballer
- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
- Rigoberto SanchezAmerican football punter
- Josh JobeAmerican football cornerback
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Paul ConradAmerican political cartoonist and sculptor
- Walter LippmannAmerican journalist and political commentator
- Robert WardAmerican composer
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Art’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Art’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4039 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Art Garfunkel at Wikipedia, artgarfunkel.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 Art Garfunkel.
Quick answers about Art Garfunkel’s chart
- How old is Art Garfunkel?
- Art Garfunkel is 85 years old, born November 5, 1941 in Forest Hills, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Art Garfunkel?
- Art Garfunkel is a Scorpio: born November 5, 1941, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Art Garfunkel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1941 birth.
- What is Art Garfunkel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Art Garfunkel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Art Garfunkel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Art Garfunkel's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
