Donald Martino
Donald Martino (born May 16, 1931, Plainfield, United States; died 2005), was an American composer. Martino's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Fulbright Scholarship and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Donald Martino’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Donald
Donald Martino’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Donald in the U.S.?
#690
US rank in 2025
~1,420,387
Americans share it since 1880
1934
its peak year
In 1931, 29,100 American boys and 160 girls were registered Donald — 7th among boys and 518th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets Donald apart
Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Donald, according to the stars
Core essence
Donald is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Donald is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Donald is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Donald needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Donald wants to be loved
Donald wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Donald creates
How Donald makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Donald creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Donald is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Donald 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Donald fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Donald's birth date. Working below.
Where Donald sits
Six lines
Donald’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Donald Martino
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Plainfield 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 Plainfield that night
Computed for 40.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Plainfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 13.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Plainfield sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Donald's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Donald Martino's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Donald Martino was born on May 16, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Donald Martino's birth date, May 16, 1931, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald Martino's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Donald Martino combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.3° orb
Donald’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
Donald’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.8° to 1.1° orb
Donald’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableUranussquarePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.0° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.7° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.6° to 7.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Donald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 19°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°14′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°32′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°17′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Eros trine Sun 0.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.6°
- Chiron square Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
Donald’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Donald’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Saturn, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
More people like Donald
Other composers
- Jerry Bock1928
- Jerry Herman1931
- Jacob Druckman1928
- Michael Colgrass1932
- Dominick Argento1927
- Quincy Jones1933
Born in United States
- Toni MorrisonAfrican American novelist, essayist, and academic
- John Robert SchriefferAmerican physicist
- James DeanAmerican actor
- Olympia DukakisAmerican actress
- Leonard BakerAmerican biographer
- Jerry HermanAmerican composer and lyricist
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Fellow Taurus suns
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- Isaiah HartensteinGerman-American basketball player
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Born in Goat years
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- Sam Taylor-JohnsonBritish film director
- Yohji YamamotoJapanese fashion designer
Also born on May 16
- Pierce Brosnan1953
- Janet Jackson1966
- Tucker Carlson1969
- Behati Prinsloo1988
- Megan Fox1986
- IU1993
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Don Hahnartist, film maker, producer (born 1955)
- Richard GaddScottish writer, actor and comedian
- Katherine HelmondAmerican actress
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Florian WirtzGerman association football player (born 2003)
- Miss Maud Angelica Behneldest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn
- Emily CareyBritish actor
- Travis HunterAmerican football player (born 2003)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Jaime KingAmerican actress and model
- Chad JohnsonAmerican gridiron football player (born 1978)
- Aja Naomi KingAmerican film and television actress
- Ashley IaconettiAmerican television personality
Famous people with Life Path 8
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- Alva MyrdalSwedish sociologist and politician
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Donald’s cards
Computed from May 16, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q357171 (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 Donald Martino 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 Donald Martino.
Quick answers about Donald Martino’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Donald Martino?
- Donald Martino was a Taurus: born May 16, 1931, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Donald Martino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1931 birth.
- What was Donald Martino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Donald Martino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Donald Martino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Donald Martino's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
