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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Donna
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.
How common is the name Donna in the U.S.?
#1965
US rank in 2025
~833,874
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
In 1921, 1,111 American girls were registered Donna — 189th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donna’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Donna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Donna apart
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Donna sits
Six lines
Donna’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Donna Reed
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Denison 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 Denison that night
Computed for 42.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Denison at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 4.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Denison sits at 42.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Denison on any night.
The Moon, 77% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Donna's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
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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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.0° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.2° to 8.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 6°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 26°34′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 8°55′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°31′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Donna’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Donna’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.0°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.3°
More people like Donna
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- Martin Balsam1919
- James Whitmore1921
- Ben Johnson1918
- Jean Heather1921
- Eva Perón1919
- George Nader1921
Born in United States
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- E. Donnall ThomasAmerican hematologist
- Carl Neumann DeglerAmerican historian
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- Mona Van DuynAmerican poet
More charts like Donna’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Freddie HighmoreEnglish actor
- Akio MoritaJapanese businessman
- MalumaColombian singer
Born in Monkey years
- Heather DubrowAmerican actress and television personality
- Dylan EfronAmerican actor
- Dave GrohlAmerican rock musician
Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
- Georgina Rodríguez1994
- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Zarakh IlievRussian businessman
- Riley P. BechtelAmerican billionaire heir and businessman
- Vadim MoshkovichRussian businessman
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Bob MarleyJamaican reggae musician
- NeymarBrazilian footballer
- Jennifer AnistonAmerican actress
- Felipe VI of SpainKing of Spain since 2014
Other Gilded Architects
- Aishwarya RaiIndian actress
- Luka ModrićCroatian footballer
- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
- Bruno MarsAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Perry LopezAmerican actor
- David ClennonAmerican actor
- Malcolm WaiteAmerican actor
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Donna’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q224021 (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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donna Reed 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 Donna Reed.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Donna Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
