Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (born November 18, 1899, Budapest, Hungary; died 1985), was a Hungarian-American conductor and violinist. Ormandy served as concertmaster. Ormandy's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Eugene Ormandy’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Eugene Ormandy’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Eugene in the U.S.?
#943
US rank in 2025
~383,340
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Eugene, according to the stars
Core essence
Eugene does not do surface. The core of Eugene is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Eugene is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Eugene processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Eugene needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Eugene wants to be loved
Eugene wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Eugene and watch them fall for you again.
How Eugene creates
How Eugene makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Eugene 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: Eugene is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Eugene is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Eugene has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Eugene's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eugene sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Eugene Ormandy's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Eugene Ormandy was born on November 18, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Eugene Ormandy's birth date, November 18, 1899, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Eugene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eugene Ormandy's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Eight of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eugene Ormandy combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Eugene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eugene Ormandy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Gemini 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.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.7° orb
Eugene’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.2° orb
Eugene’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
Eugene’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.2° to 3.9° orb
Eugene’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.7° orb
Eugene’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
Eugene’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Eugene’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.9° to 5.1° orb
Eugene’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.2° to 5.0° orb
Eugene’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.4° orb
Eugene’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.2° orb
Eugene’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.5° to 6.7° orb
Eugene’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable8 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Eugene’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 13°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Eugene building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°12′ (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. Eugene is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°30′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Eugene attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 16°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Eugene carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Eugene is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.8°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.9°
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°).
Eugene’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. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Eugene is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Eugene’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 Sagittarius · Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eugene Ormandy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Eugene’s cards
Every card is computed from November 18, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eugene Ormandy, 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
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q344023, 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 Halsman, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eugene Ormandy 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 Eugene Ormandy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eugene Ormandy?
- Eugene Ormandy was a Scorpio: born November 18, 1899, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Eugene Ormandy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1899 birth.
- What time was Eugene Ormandy 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 was Eugene Ormandy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 18, 1899 birth date.
- What was Eugene Ormandy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 18, 1899 birth date.
- Where was Eugene Ormandy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eugene Ormandy's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
