Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor (born August 28, 1925, Chicago, United States; died 2003), was an American dancer, singer, and actor. O'Connor's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Donald O'Connor’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Donald O'Connor’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.
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
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Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
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What the chart says
Donald, according to the stars
Core essence
Donald 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 Donald is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Donald wants to be loved
Donald wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Donald gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Donald creates
How Donald 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. Donald 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: Donald is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Donald 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 Donald's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Donald O'Connor's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1925, 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.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Donald O'Connor was born on August 28, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Donald O'Connor's birth date, August 28, 1925, 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 Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald O'Connor's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Donald O'Connor 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.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Donald O'Connor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 0.9° orb
Donald’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.4° orb
Donald’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.5° to 3.2° orb
Donald’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
Donald’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextilePluto3.9° to 4.6° orb
Donald’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb
Donald’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
Donald’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.1° to 6.8° orb
Donald’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.4° orb
Donald’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb
Donald’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.8° orb
Donald’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Donald’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 ℞Aries 28°03′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Donald may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 23°60′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Donald is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCancer 29°09′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Donald is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 10°42′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Donald is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Donald guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.7°
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°).
Donald’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Donald 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 Donald’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.
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donald O'Connor, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Donald’s cards
Every card is computed from August 28, 1925, 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
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Donald O'Connor, 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
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q348345, 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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donald O'Connor at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Donald O'Connor’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Donald O'Connor?
- Donald O'Connor was a Virgo: born August 28, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Donald O'Connor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1925 birth.
- What time was Donald O'Connor 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 was Donald O'Connor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 28, 1925 birth date.
- What was Donald O'Connor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 28, 1925 birth date.
- Where was Donald O'Connor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Donald O'Connor's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
