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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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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.

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

#1795

US rank in 2025

~168,839

Americans share it since 1880

1946

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1947, Don came 86th among boys and 2,099th among girls, carried by 4,007 American boys and 22 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Don’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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

Don’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Don apart

Don Bartletti took the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2003, at 56.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Don Bartletti: American male photographers and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners.

The same date carries Ted Danson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (2003) and The Sidney Award (2015)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
3

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. Working below.

Where Don sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Don

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Don

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Don

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Don

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Don

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Don

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Don Bartletti

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Don’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 85.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 70.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Perseus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.

How unusual Don's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Water 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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Don Bartletti at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. 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.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Don Bartletti was born on December 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Don Bartletti's birth date, December 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Don’s chart

Don’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Mars · Trine, 0.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 2.7° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.8° orbSun in Capricorn · 7°09′☉7°Moon in Leo · 3°21′☽3°Mercury in Capricorn · 4°20′☿4°Venus in Aquarius · 6°05′♀6°Mars in Virgo · 7°01′♂7°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 14°39′♃14°Saturn in Leo · 22°06′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Gemini · 23°36′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Libra · 12°55′♆12°Pluto in Leo · 14°33′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineMars1.9° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 20°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 25°36′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 12°34′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 25°47′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Don’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Don’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.

  • 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°

Born the same day as Don

Ted Danson was born on December 29, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.0°N, the sky above Philadelphia stops at −50.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?

Don’s cards

Computed from December 29, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Don’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28378430 (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.

The same Don Bartletti at Wikipedia and donbartlettiphotography.com.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Don Bartletti's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Don Bartletti's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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