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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Art
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
The SSA recorded 111 American boys named Art in 1948: 642nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Art’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on A (1) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
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 record
What sets Art apart
Megan Thee Stallion (1995) and Miranda July (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Art sits
Six lines
Art’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Spiegelman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stockholm 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 Stockholm that night
Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stockholm was Muscida, in Ursa Major, 78.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.
From 59.3°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stockholm at all: they sit past the −30.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 28% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
How unusual Art's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableSuntrineUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars5.9° to 6.2° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.4° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°19′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°26′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°56′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°55′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°28′ (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 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°
Art’s dominant planets
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
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 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°
More people like Art
Other photographers
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- Michael Williamson1957
- Michel Laurent1946
- Anthony Suau1956
- Alan Diaz1947
- Carol Guzy1956
Born in Sweden
- Tomas LindahlNobel prize winning Swedish biologist
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- Ann-Margretactress
- Dolph LundgrenSwedish actor and martial artist
- Lena NymanSwedish actress
- Finn RausingSwedish businessman
More charts like Art’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Gerard PiquéSpanish association football player
- Ellen DeGeneresAmerican comedian, television host, actress, and writer
- Christina RicciAmerican actress
Born in Rat years
- BonoIrish singer
- Addie L. WyattAmerican labor leader
- Tatiana FelgenhauerRussian journalist
Also born on February 15
- Megan Thee Stallion1995
- Miranda July1974
- Callum Turner1990
- Sodapoppin1994
- Omarosa Manigault Newman1974
- Amber Riley1986
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Kahlil BensonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Grant DelpitAmerican football player
- Tytus HowardAmerican football player
Other Aquarius Rat charts
- L'Jarius SneedAmerican football cornerback
- Davon HamiltonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Christian Rozeboomfootball player (born 1997)
- JihyoSouth Korean singer
Other Gilded Guardians
- Cameron McGroneAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Nate LandmanZimbabwean-American football player
- Evan NealAmerican football offensive tackle
- Devin LloydAmerican football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Louis P. LochnerAmerican journalist
- Mark FeeneyAmerican journalist
- Theodore RoethkeAmerican poet
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Art’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Art’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q325945 (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 Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Art Spiegelman at Wikipedia, 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 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.
- 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 is Art Spiegelman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Art Spiegelman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
