Don Bartletti
Don Bartletti (born December 29, 1947, Philadelphia, United States), aged 78, is an American photojournalist. Bartletti's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and The Sidney Award.
Don Bartletti’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Don Bartletti’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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~168,839
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
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Don’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Don, according to the stars
Core essence
Don is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Don is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Don wants to be loved
Don 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 Don be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Don creates
How Don makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Don creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Don is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Don is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Don channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Don's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Don sits
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Don Bartletti at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Don Bartletti's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 29, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Don Bartletti was born on December 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Don Bartletti's birth date, December 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Don’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Don Bartletti's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Water signs in this chart.
- Don Bartletti combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Don’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Don Bartletti, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Don’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.0° to 0.2° orb
Don’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.5° orb
Don’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.6° to 1.8° orb
Don’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Don’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars1.9° to 3.4° orb
Don’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.1° orb
Don’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
Don’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb
Don’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.0° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 3.7° to 18.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Don’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 20°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Don carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 25°36′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Don looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°34′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Don is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 25°47′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Don needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Don at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 trine Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.2°
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°).
Don’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Don is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Don’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Don Bartletti, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Don
Ted Danson was born on December 29, 1947 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Don’s cards
Every card is computed from December 29, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Don Bartletti, 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
Don’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28378430, 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.
The same Don Bartletti at Wikipedia and donbartlettiphotography.com.
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 Don Bartletti.
Quick answers about Don Bartletti’s chart
- How old is Don Bartletti?
- Don Bartletti is 78 years old, born December 29, 1947 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Don Bartletti?
- Don Bartletti is a Capricorn: born December 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Don Bartletti's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1947 birth.
- What time was Don Bartletti 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 is Don Bartletti's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 29, 1947 birth date.
- What is Don Bartletti's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 29, 1947 birth date.
- Where is Don Bartletti's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Don Bartletti's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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