Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie (born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, United States; died 1993), was an American jazz trumpeter. Gillespie's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Dizzy Gillespie’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Dizzy
Dizzy Gillespie’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
What Dizzy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dizzy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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 Dizzy apart
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award came in 1989, when Dizzy Gillespie was 72.
The schooling ran through Laurinburg Institute.
Dizzy Gillespie was 18 when the work began in 1935.
The record gives pancreatic cancer as the cause, and Flushing Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Bebop trumpeters, Afro-Cuban jazz composers and Converts to the Baháʼí Faith.
Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Laurinburg Institute
- Instruments
- trumpet, voice and Jew's harp
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989), National Medal of Arts (1989) and New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014)
- Working from
- 1935
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Buried at
- Flushing Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Dizzy, according to the stars
Core essence
Dizzy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Dizzy is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Dizzy wants to be loved
Dizzy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Dizzy and watch them fall for you again.
How Dizzy creates
How Dizzy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Dizzy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Dizzy is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dizzy is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Dizzy 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 Dizzy's birth date. Working below.
Where Dizzy sits
Six lines
Dizzy’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 Dizzy Gillespie
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cheraw 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 Cheraw that night
Computed for 34.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cheraw was Scheat, in Pegasus, 81.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Cheraw sits at 34.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Cheraw at all: they sit past the −55.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 34% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cheraw, United States
The death is recorded at Englewood, Bergen County in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dizzy Gillespie: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Dizzy's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Dizzy Gillespie's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Dizzy Gillespie was born on October 21, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Dizzy Gillespie's birth date, October 21, 1917, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Dizzy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dizzy Gillespie's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Dizzy Gillespie combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Dizzy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.7° orb
Dizzy’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Dizzy’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.7° orb
Dizzy’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.1° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.4° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Dizzy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°17′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 28°20′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°04′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.5°
Dizzy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Dizzy’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.
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.0°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
More people like Dizzy
Other composers
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- Mel Powell1923
- Benny Goodman1909
- Eddie Snyder1919
- Norman Dello Joio1913
- Bert Kaempfert1923
Born in United States
- Robert WardAmerican composer
- Philip José FarmerAmerican writer
- William Standish KnowlesAmerican chemist
- James RainwaterAmerican physicist
- Robert MitchumAmerican actor
- Theodore SturgeonAmerican speculative fiction writer
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Born in Snake years
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
- Audrey FleurotFrench actress (1977)
- Luke BraceyAustralian actor (born 1989)
Also born on October 21
- Alfred Nobel1833
- Benjamin Netanyahu1949
- Kim Kardashian1980
- Carrie Fisher1956
- Doja Cat1995
- Glen Powell1988
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- John Franklin-MyersAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Maxx CrosbyAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Tristan WirfsAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Libra Snake charts
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- LJ CryerAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jaylen ClarkAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Caleb LoveAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Other Radiant Pioneers
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- Lennon StellaCanadian singer and actress
- Alisha Marieactor, YouTuber
Famous people with Life Path 4
- PepePortuguese association football player
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- Carlos MenemArgentinean president between 1989 and 1999
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Dizzy’s cards
Computed from October 21, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dizzy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49575 (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 William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dizzy Gillespie 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 Dizzy Gillespie.
Quick answers about Dizzy Gillespie’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dizzy Gillespie?
- Dizzy Gillespie was a Libra: born October 21, 1917, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Dizzy Gillespie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1917 birth.
- What was Dizzy Gillespie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dizzy Gillespie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dizzy Gillespie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dizzy Gillespie's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
