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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Donald Sutherland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Aquarius 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.
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
Donald’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Donald’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquarePluto1.6° to 2.1° orb
Donald’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.3° orb
Donald’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.9° orb
Donald’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.8° orb
Donald’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.7° orb
Donald’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileVenus4.2° to 4.6° orb
Donald’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° orb
Donald’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Donald turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLeo 27°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Donald is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Donald is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°12′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Donald is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Donald exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Donald is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donald Sutherland, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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 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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Donald’s cards
Every card is computed from July 17, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Donald Sutherland, 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 Q103784, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig.
- 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 time was Donald Sutherland 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 Sutherland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 17, 1935 birth date.
- What was Donald Sutherland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 17, 1935 birth date.
- 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.
