Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell (born March 27, 1934, Harlem, United States; died 2018), was an American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mitchell's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, MacArthur Fellows Program and National Medal of Arts.
Arthur Mitchell’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
Arthur Mitchell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?
#87
US rank in 2025
~551,930
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1934, 6,443 American boys and 52 girls were registered Arthur — 29th among boys and 956th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arthur’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Arthur apart
The Capezio Dance Award came in 1971, when Arthur Mitchell was 37.
Arthur Mitchell was taught at High School of Performing Arts and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
On Wikipedia the categories read Dance Theatre of Harlem, African-American male ballet dancers and American ballet choreographers.
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845) and Mariah Carey (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- High School of Performing Arts, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and School of American Ballet
- Awards
- Capezio Dance Award (1971), MacArthur Fellows Program (1994) and Paul Robeson Award (1985)
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Arthur, according to the stars
Core essence
Arthur leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Arthur is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Arthur wants to be loved
Arthur wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Arthur be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Arthur creates
How Arthur 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. Arthur 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: Arthur is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Arthur is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Arthur 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 Arthur's birth date. Working below.
Where Arthur sits
Six lines
Arthur’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Arthur Mitchell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harlem 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 Harlem that night
Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Harlem at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Harlem sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 91% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Harlem, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Arthur Mitchell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Arthur's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Pluto
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Arthur Mitchell's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 27, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Arthur Mitchell was born on March 27, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Arthur Mitchell's birth date, March 27, 1934, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Mitchell's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Arthur Mitchell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.6° to 1.3° orb
Arthur’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.5° to 2.4° orb
Arthur’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.7° orb
Arthur’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 0°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°15′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°27′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°29′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.5°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
More people like Arthur
Other ballet dancers
- Alvin Ailey1931
- Larisa Latynina1934
- Paul Taylor1930
- Edward Villella1936
- Maria Tallchief1925
- Suzanne Farrell1945
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Arthur’s cards
Computed from March 27, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3753500 (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 Annette von Wangenheim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Mitchell 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 Arthur Mitchell.
Quick answers about Arthur Mitchell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Arthur Mitchell?
- Arthur Mitchell was an Aries: born March 27, 1934, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Arthur Mitchell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 27, 1934 birth.
- What was Arthur Mitchell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Arthur Mitchell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Arthur Mitchell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Arthur Mitchell's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
