Desi Arnaz
Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer (1917-1986)
Born March 2, 1917 · Santiago de Cuba
Desi Arnaz’s zodiac sign is Pisces — and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces
Fire Snake
Life Path 5How compatible are you with Desi Arnaz?
Pisces Fire Snake Life Path 5
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Desi Arnaz’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water gives Desi depth. Life Path 5 gives freedom. The Tidal Explorer is where the two meet — the explorer’s direction carried with water’s texture.
The name Desi in the world
#4096
US rank in 2025
~3,395
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Desi’s luck
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print — one tradition, read for everyone
Who is Desi Arnaz?
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Desi Arnaz (born 1917) is a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer (1917-1986).
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Desi Arnaz in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels everything. Owns none of it.
Empathy · imagination · porous boundaries
Desi Arnaz was born under a Pisces sun in Santiago de Cuba in 1917. Pisces energy is read as imaginative and porous — you may absorb the feelings around you and turn them into empathy or art. The growth edge is boundaries: not every mood you feel is yours to carry.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeWatches quietly. Strikes precisely.
Wise · composed · deeply perceptive
In the Chinese cycle, Desi Arnaz's 1917 birth falls in a year of the Fire Snake. Snake years are linked to wisdom and privacy — you may watch quietly, then act precisely. The tradition's caution is keeping so much inside that even close people guess wrong about you.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Freedom · change · appetite for life
For the Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer (1917-1986), numerology reads 1917-03-02 as Life Path 5. A 5 path suggests a life theme of freedom — change may find you even when you don't seek it. The practice is telling the difference between escape and genuine growth. Arnaz's birth facts trace to public records — see how your own number compares.
Desi’s full placements
No documented birth time exists for Desi Arnaz, so these are the planets in their signs at local noon — the Moon can be off by up to 7°, and houses and the Ascendant need a time.
Tightest aspects: Mercury conjunction Uranus (0.2°) · Sun conjunction Mars (0.4°) · Jupiter square Neptune (0.6°).
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Desi’s cards
Every one is calculated from the birth date, not chosen: the tarot card by reducing the digits of March 2, 1917, the identity card by combining the BaZi day-master element with the Life Path number, and the two zodiac cards from the sun’s position and the Chinese year branch, and the metal from the planet that traditionally rules that sign.
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Desi Arnaz, 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
Desi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q472535, released under CC0. No documented birth time is available. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart.
These are traditional interpretations — not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Desi Arnaz.
Quick answers about Desi Arnaz’s chart
- What zodiac sign is Desi Arnaz?
- Desi Arnaz is a Pisces — born March 2, 1917, which puts the Sun in Pisces. That is the Western star sign; in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- What is Desi Arnaz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, carrying the Fire element — from the Chinese lunar year of the March 2, 1917 birth.
- What time was Desi Arnaz born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public. This chart uses date-only positions, so houses and the Ascendant are left uncomputed rather than guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Desi Arnaz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 2, 1917 birth date.
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