Don Bradman
Don Bradman (born August 27, 1908, Cootamundra, Australia; died 2001), was an Australian cricketer. Bradman played for South Australia cricket team, New South Wales cricket team and Australia national cricket team. Bradman's honours include Knight Bachelor, Sport Australia Hall of Fame and Companion of the Order of Australia.
Don Bradman’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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Don Bradman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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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 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Don, according to the stars
Core essence
Don notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Don is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Don wants to be loved
Don wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Don gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Don creates
How Don 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. Don 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: Don is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Don Bradman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Don Bradman was born on August 27, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Don Bradman's birth date, August 27, 1908, 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 Bradman's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Don Bradman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Don’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Don Bradman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 6.8° orb
Don’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.7° to 0.9° orb
Don’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.4° to 1.8° orb
Don’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 3.1° orb
Don’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.6° to 4.5° orb
Don’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.1° orb
Don’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° orb
Don’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 5.5° orb
Don’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionUranus5.4° to 6.2° orb
Don’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.7° orb
Don’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.5° to 7.3° orb
Don’s core identity and growth act as one.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 20°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Don making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 27°48′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Don is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 3°40′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Don is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°09′ (moves 0.22° 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 LilithLeo 26°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Don is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Don is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
Stellium in Virgo · 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.
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 biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Don Bradman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Don
Lyndon B. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Don’s cards
Every card is computed from August 27, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Don Bradman, 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 Q313591, 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 State Library of South Australia from Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Don Bradman at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Don Bradman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Don Bradman?
- Don Bradman was a Virgo: born August 27, 1908, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Don Bradman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 27, 1908 birth.
- What time was Don Bradman 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.
- How tall was Don Bradman?
- Don Bradman was 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Don Bradman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 27, 1908 birth date.
- What was Don Bradman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 27, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Don Bradman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Don Bradman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
