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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Donna
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
Of the names registered in 1963, Donna came 6th among girls and 908th among boys, carried by 25,405 American girls and 68 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donna’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
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
The record
What sets Donna apart
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) 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 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. Working below.
Where Donna sits
Six lines
Donna’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Tartt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greenwood 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 Greenwood that night
Computed for 33.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Greenwood at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 33.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Greenwood on any night.
The Moon, 53% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Donna's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.2° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°35′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°33′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 3°45′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.6°
Donna’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Donna’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Donna
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- Ales Bialiatski1962
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- Jackie Kay1961
- Douglas A. Blackmon1964
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Born in United States
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- Lauren HollyAmerican actress
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More charts like Donna’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Kobe BrownAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Dru SmithAmerican basketball player
- Andrew NembhardCanadian basketball player (born 2000)
Born in Rabbit years
- Thomas PidcockBritish cyclist
- Cameron GreenAustralian cricketer
- Cody GakpoDutch association football player (born 1999)
Also born on December 23
- Finn Wolfhard2002
- Eddie Vedder1964
- Madam C. J. Walker1867
- Holly Madison1979
- Justin Olam1993
- Corey Haim1971
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- James TateAmerican poet
- E. B. WhiteAmerican author
- Roger ReynoldsAmerican composer (born 1934)
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- Cary GrantBritish-American actor
- Tom Helmoreactor from England
- Ray BolgerAmerican actor
- Saadi YacefAlgerian guerilla
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Issa RaeAmerican actress, writer and producer
- Suki WaterhouseBritish model and actress
- Jhené AikoAmerican R&B singer
- Caitlin ClarkAmerican basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Douglas HofstadterAmerican physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
- Siddhartha MukherjeeIndian-American physician and writer (born 1970)
- Jeffrey Kent Eugenidesnovelist, short story writer, academic
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Donna’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q255339 (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 Antonio Monda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Donna Tartt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Donna Tartt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
