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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~551,930
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Arthur Mitchell in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Arthur Mitchell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Arthur’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
Arthur’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableUranussquarePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Arthur’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
Arthur’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenussextileUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
Arthur’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.2° to 4.5° orb
Arthur’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.2° to 6.4° orb
Arthur’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 0°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Arthur turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°15′ (moves 0.39° 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. Arthur is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 19°27′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Arthur is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°29′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Arthur is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Arthur guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Arthur’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Arthur is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Arthur’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arthur Mitchell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Arthur’s cards
Every card is computed from March 27, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Arthur Mitchell, 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
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3753500, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- 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 time was Arthur Mitchell 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 Arthur Mitchell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the March 27, 1934 birth date.
- What was Arthur Mitchell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 27, 1934 birth date.
- 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.
