Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963, Greenwood, United States), aged 62, is an American writer. Tartt is best known for The Goldfinch, The Little Friend and The Secret History. Tartt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Mecca Prize.
Donna Tartt’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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Donna Tartt’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
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Donna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Donna, according to the stars
Core essence
Donna is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Donna is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Donna is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Donna does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Donna'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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Donna Tartt at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Donna Tartt's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Donna Tartt was born on December 23, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Donna Tartt's birth date, December 23, 1963, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Donna’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donna Tartt's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Donna Tartt combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Donna’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Donna Tartt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Donna’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb
Donna’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
Donna’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Donna’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
Donna’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb
Donna’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 4.4° orb
Donna’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.2° orb
Donna’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrinePluto5.7° to 6.1° orb
Donna’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.2° orb
Donna’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 6.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Donna absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°35′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Donna is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 23°33′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Donna is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 3°45′ (moves 0.02° 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. Donna is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Donna is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.6°
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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Donna is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donna Tartt, 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 December 23, 1963, 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
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Donna Tartt, 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 Q255339, 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 Antonio Monda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donna Tartt at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Donna Tartt.
Quick answers about Donna Tartt’s chart
- How old is Donna Tartt?
- Donna Tartt is 62 years old, born December 23, 1963 in Greenwood, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Donna Tartt?
- Donna Tartt is a Capricorn: born December 23, 1963, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- What is Donna Tartt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1963 birth.
- What time was Donna Tartt 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 is Donna Tartt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 23, 1963 birth date.
- What is Donna Tartt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 23, 1963 birth date.
- Where is Donna Tartt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Donna Tartt's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
