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Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento (born October 27, 1927, York, United States; died 2019), was an American composer. Argento is best remembered for From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Argento's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts and Letters Award in Music.

Dominick Argento’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Dominick Argento’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Dominick in the U.S.?

#622

US rank in 2025

~67,447

Americans share it since 1880

2003

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Dominick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

11 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Crimson · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Dominick, according to the stars

Core essence

Dominick does not do surface. The core of Dominick is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Dominick is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Dominick wants to be loved

Dominick wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Dominick and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Dominick creates

How Dominick makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Dominick builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Dominick is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Dominick is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dominick runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Dominick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Dominick sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Dominick

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dominick

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Dominick

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dominick

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Dominick

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dominick

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Dominick Argento's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 27, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Fire Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Dominick Argento was born on October 27, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Dominick Argento's birth date, October 27, 1927, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Dominick’s chart

Dominick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Dominick Argento, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.1° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.2° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 3°17′Moon in Scorpio · 25°38′25°Mercury in Scorpio · 25°08′25°Venus in Virgo · 19°26′19°Mars in Scorpio · 1°09′Jupiter in Pisces · 24°30′ · retrograde24°Saturn in Sagittarius · 5°59′Uranus in Aries · 0°14′ · retrogradeNeptune in Leo · 28°50′28°Pluto in Cancer · 17°09′ · retrograde17°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 6.3° orb

    Dominick’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.4° to 0.8° orb

    Dominick’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.9° to 2.7° orb

    Dominick’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.3° orb

    Dominick’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.0° to 2.6° orb

    Dominick’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.6° to 3.9° orb

    Dominick’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb

    Dominick’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb

    Dominick’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb

    Dominick’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.7° orb

    Dominick’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb

    Dominick’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Dominick’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.

  • ChironTaurus 3°45′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Dominick building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresSagittarius 26°31′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Dominick is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosLibra or Scorpio during this date

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Dominick is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • HygieaScorpio 20°04′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Dominick carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • Black Moon LilithLibra 26°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Dominick that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron opposition Sun 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.0°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.5°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.9°

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°).

Dominick’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. 1. Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Dominick is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Dominick’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, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Mars, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

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 biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dominick Argento, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yin Fire

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Dominick Argento, 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

Dominick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2630943, 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 King Elder (Ekredle), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dominick Argento 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dominick Argento.

Quick answers about Dominick Argento’s chart

What zodiac sign was Dominick Argento?
Dominick Argento was a Scorpio: born October 27, 1927, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
What was Dominick Argento's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1927 birth.
What time was Dominick Argento 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 Dominick Argento's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 27, 1927 birth date.
What was Dominick Argento's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 27, 1927 birth date.
Where was Dominick Argento's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Dominick Argento's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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