Donovan Mitchell
Donovan Mitchell (born September 7, 1996, Elmsford, United States), aged 30, is an American basketball player (born 1996). Mitchell has played for Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz and United States men's national basketball team.
Donovan Mitchell’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Donovan
Donovan Mitchell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Donovan in the U.S.?
#496
US rank in 2025
~61,904
Americans share it since 1900
2003
its peak year
Donovan ranked 246th in 1996, the year of this birth, with 1,201 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donovan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Donovan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Donovan apart
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Louisville and Greenwich Country Day School.
The working life starts in 2017, at 21.
Wikipedia's editors put Donovan Mitchell under Sportspeople of Panamanian descent, Canterbury School (Connecticut) alumni and Louisville Cardinals men's basketball players.
Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Louisville, Greenwich Country Day School and Brewster Academy
- Working from
- 2017
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Donovan, according to the stars
Core essence
Donovan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Donovan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Donovan is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Donovan needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Donovan creates
How Donovan makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Donovan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Donovan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Donovan 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Donovan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Donovan's birth date. Working below.
Where Donovan sits
Six lines
Donovan’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 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 Donovan Mitchell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elmsford 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 Elmsford that night
Computed for 41.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Elmsford was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 83.1° up.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 21% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
How unusual Donovan's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter · 2 planets 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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Donovan Mitchell's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Donovan Mitchell was born on September 7, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Donovan Mitchell's birth date, September 7, 1996, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Donovan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donovan Mitchell's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Donovan Mitchell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Donovan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Cancer 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
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Donovan’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Donovan’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto0.5° orb
Donovan’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.6° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.7° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.1° to 2.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Donovan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 15°15′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°45′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°35′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 23°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.7°
Donovan’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Donovan’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Pluto, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Pluto, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.7°
More people like Donovan
Other basketball players
- Jamal Murray1997
- Domantas Sabonis1996
- Devin Booker1996
- Ben Simmons1996
- Landry Shamet1997
- Max Strus1996
Born in United States
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- Mikal BridgesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Ross MatiscikAmerican football long snapper
- Marcus DavenportAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Sabrina ClaudioAmerican singer and songwriter
- Quincy WilliamsAmerican football player
More charts like Donovan’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Carrington ValentineAmerican football player
- Austin CorbettAmerican football guard
- A. J. EpenesaAmerican football player (born 1998)
Born in Rat years
- Bruce NorrisAmerican playwright and actor
- Paul ConradAmerican political cartoonist and sculptor
- Jeffrey Kent Eugenidesnovelist, short story writer, academic
Also born on September 7
- Evan Rachel Wood1987
- Ariarne Titmus2000
- Miniminter1992
- Gracie Abrams1999
- Angie Everhart1969
- Shannon Elizabeth1973
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Niall HoranIrish singer-songwriter
- Art GarfunkelAmerican singer
- Paul WesleyAmerican actor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- A. S. ByattBritish writer
- Jacobus Henricus van 't HoffDutch physical and organic chemist
- Edward Mills PurcellAmerican physicist
- Frans Eemil SillanpääFinnish writer
Other Radiant Explorers
- Yoo Jae-sukSouth Korean comedian, presenter
- SnookiAmerican reality television personality
- Gout GoutSouth Sudanese-Australian athlete
- Pamela ReifGerman model
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Stephen CollinsAmerican actor
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- Tish CyrusAmerican actress and producer
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Donovan’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donovan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q30122104 (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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donovan Mitchell at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Donovan Mitchell.
Quick answers about Donovan Mitchell’s chart
- How old is Donovan Mitchell?
- Donovan Mitchell is 30 years old, born September 7, 1996 in Elmsford, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Donovan Mitchell?
- Donovan Mitchell is a Virgo: born September 7, 1996, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Donovan Mitchell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1996 birth.
- How tall is Donovan Mitchell?
- Donovan Mitchell is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Donovan Mitchell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Donovan Mitchell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Donovan Mitchell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Donovan Mitchell's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
