Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland (born July 17, 1935, Saint John, Canada; died 2024), was a Canadian actor. Sutherland's honours include Companion of the Order of Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Donald Sutherland’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Donald
Donald Sutherland’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
The SSA recorded 29,674 American boys and 112 girls named Donald in 1935: 7th among boys and 614th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4).
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Donald apart
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie came in 1995, when Donald Sutherland was 60.
Study took Donald Sutherland to Bridgewater Junior High School and Victoria College, British Columbia.
Donald Sutherland was 22 when the work began in 1957.
Donald Sutherland was born to Dorothy Isobel McNichol and Frederick McLea Sutherland, married Shirley Douglas and Francine Racette and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia files Donald Sutherland under Canadian expatriates in Scotland, Anti-Vietnam War activists and Actors from Saint John, New Brunswick.
Diahann Carroll shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Bridgewater Junior High School, Victoria College, British Columbia and Victoria University
- Awards
- Canada's Walk of Fame (2000), Academy Honorary Award (2017) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1995)
- Nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture and MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
- Working from
- 1957
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 97
What the chart says
Donald, according to the stars
Core essence
Donald feels the room before entering it. The core of Donald is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Donald, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Donald needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Donald needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Donald wants to be loved
Donald wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Donald and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Donald is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Donald fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Sutherland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint John 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 Saint John that night
Computed for 45.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Saint John at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 14.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.3°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Saint John at all: they sit past the −44.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 95% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saint John, Canada
- Lived in
- Stanstead
Wikidata records Stanstead as Donald Sutherland's home, against Saint John as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Miami, Miami-Dade County in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Donald Sutherland: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Donald's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Fire 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Donald Sutherland's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Donald Sutherland was born on July 17, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Donald Sutherland's birth date, July 17, 1935, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald Sutherland's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
- Donald Sutherland combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableSunsquareMars0.1° to 0.6° orb
Donald’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
Donald’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.9° orb
Donald’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssquarePluto1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Donald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 27°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°12′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Donald’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Donald’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Donald’s family here
One relative of Donald Sutherland also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Donald
Diahann Carroll was born on July 17, 1935 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 45.3°N, Saint John keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Donald
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- Daniel Massey1933
- Louis Gossett Jr.1936
- Sophia Loren1934
- Chaim Topol1935
- Richard S. Castellano1933
- Susan Kohner1936
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on July 17
- Angela Merkel1954
- Queen Camilla1947
- Kali Uchis1994
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Ekaterina FedunDaughter of Russian billionaire Leonid Fedun
- Harsh Mariwala
- Lionel MessiArgentine association football player
Other Cancer Pig charts
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- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Ashley HamiltonAmerican actor
- Joshua JacksonCanadian actor
- Stephanie MarchAmerican actress
- Matthew LillardAmerican actor (born 1970)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Volodymyr ZelenskyyPresident of Ukraine since 2019
- J. R. R. TolkienEnglish writer and philologist
- Jawaharlal NehruPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Donald’s cards
Computed from July 17, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q103784 (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.
Portrait by Festival TV Monte-Carlo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donald Sutherland 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 Sutherland.
Quick answers about Donald Sutherland’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Donald Sutherland?
- Donald Sutherland was a Cancer: born July 17, 1935, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Donald Sutherland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1935 birth.
- What was Donald Sutherland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Donald Sutherland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Donald Sutherland's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Donald Sutherland's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
