Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948, Stockholm, Sweden), aged 78, is an American cartoonist and writer (born 1948). Spiegelman is best known for In the Shadow of No Towers, Raw and Maus. Spiegelman's honours include Harvey Awards, American Book Awards and Siegfried Unseld Preis.
Art Spiegelman’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Art Spiegelman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Art’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Art, according to the stars
Core essence
Art is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Art is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Art wants to be loved
Art wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Art creates
How Art makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Art creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Art 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Art is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Art 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 Art's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Art sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Art Spiegelman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Art Spiegelman was born on February 15, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Art Spiegelman's birth date, February 15, 1948, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Art’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Art Spiegelman's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- Art Spiegelman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Art’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Art Spiegelman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Art’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.4° to 2.3° orb
Art’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.5° to 1.7° orb
Art’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionMars2.4° to 3.8° orb
Art’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
Art’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
Art’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.7° to 5.3° orb
Art’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.0° to 5.2° orb
Art’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Art’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionMars5.9° to 6.2° orb
Art’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.4° to 7.5° orb
Art’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 6.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Art’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 24°19′ (moves 0.04° 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 Art carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°26′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Art is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 11°56′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Art is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°55′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Art needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Art at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron square Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Art’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Art is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Art’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 biquintile Mars 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Art Spiegelman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Art’s cards
Every card is computed from February 15, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Art Spiegelman, 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
Art’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q325945, 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 Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Art Spiegelman 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Art Spiegelman.
Quick answers about Art Spiegelman’s chart
- How old is Art Spiegelman?
- Art Spiegelman is 78 years old, born February 15, 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- What zodiac sign is Art Spiegelman?
- Art Spiegelman is an Aquarius: born February 15, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is Art Spiegelman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1948 birth.
- What time was Art Spiegelman 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 is Art Spiegelman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 15, 1948 birth date.
- What is Art Spiegelman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 15, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Art Spiegelman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Art Spiegelman's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
