Donna Reed
Donna Reed (born January 27, 1921, Denison, United States; died 1986), was an American film and actress. Reed's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.
Donna Reed’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Donna Reed’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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~833,874
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Donna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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What the chart says
Donna, according to the stars
Core essence
Donna is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Donna is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Donna wants to be loved
Donna wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Donna, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Donna creates
How Donna makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Donna creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Donna 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Donna is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Donna slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Donna's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Donna sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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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Donna Reed in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Donna Reed's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Donna Reed was born on January 27, 1921, which falls in a Metal 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 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Donna Reed's birth date, January 27, 1921, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Donna’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donna Reed's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Donna Reed combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Donna’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Donna Reed, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.3° orb
Donna’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.2° to 1.1° orb
Donna’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.5° to 3.2° orb
Donna’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableUranustrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Donna’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.8° orb
Donna’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.0° to 6.1° orb
Donna’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.0° to 6.3° orb
Donna’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.3° orb
Donna’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.4° orb
Donna’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.2° to 8.0° orb
Donna’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Donna’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.
⚷ ChironAries 6°43′ (moves 0.04° 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: Donna may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 26°34′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Donna feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 8°55′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Donna is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°31′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Donna is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Donna is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.6°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.7°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.5°
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°).
Donna’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. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Donna is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Donna’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quincunx Pluto 0.0°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donna Reed, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Donna’s cards
Every card is computed from January 27, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Donna Reed, 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
Donna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q224021, 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 Donna Reed 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 Donna Reed’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Donna Reed?
- Donna Reed was an Aquarius: born January 27, 1921, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Donna Reed's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1921 birth.
- What time was Donna Reed 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 Donna Reed?
- Donna Reed was 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Donna Reed's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 27, 1921 birth date.
- What was Donna Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 27, 1921 birth date.
- Where was Donna Reed's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Donna Reed's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
