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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, Chinese zodiac was 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 1881

2003

its peak year

The SSA recorded 501 American boys named Dominick in 1927: 255th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dominick’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Dominick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Dominick apart

Theodore Roosevelt (1858) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Dominick sits

Six lines

Dominick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above York 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 York that night

Computed for 39.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at York at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

York sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from York on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Dominick's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Uranus · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Air 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

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.

What Scorpio means →

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.

What the Rabbit means →

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.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Dominick’s chart

Dominick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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′☉3°Moon in Scorpio · 25°38′☽25°Mercury in Scorpio · 25°08′☿25°Venus in Virgo · 19°26′♀19°Mars in Scorpio · 1°09′♂1°Jupiter in Pisces · 24°30′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Sagittarius · 5°59′♄5°Uranus in Aries · 0°14′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Leo · 28°50′♆28°Pluto in Cancer · 17°09′ · retrograde♇℞17°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.0° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 3°45′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

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

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra or Scorpio during this date

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Dominick’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Dominick’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

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Dominick’s cards

Computed from October 27, 1927. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dominick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2630943 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Dominick Argento's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Dominick Argento's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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