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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Eugene
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
Of the names registered in 1899, Eugene came 45th, carried by 449 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eugene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Eugene apart
Margaret Atwood (1939) and Chloë Sevigny (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Eugene sits
Six lines
Eugene’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Eugene Ormandy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Budapest 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 Budapest that night
Computed for 47.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Budapest was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 80.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
From 47.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Budapest at all: they sit past the −42.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual Eugene's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Earth planets · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Gemini 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
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
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.9° to 5.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.5° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 13°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°12′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°30′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 16°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Eugene’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Eugene’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.5°
More people like Eugene
Other conductors
- Merce Cunningham1919
- Leon Fleisher1928
- Seiji Ozawa1935
- Zubin Mehta1936
- James Levine1943
Born in Hungary
- John von NeumannHungarian and American mathematician and physicist
- Imre KertészHungarian author
- Charles SimonyiHungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
- Barbara PalvinHungarian model
- Paul HörbigerAustrian actor
- Edward TellerHungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
More charts like Eugene’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Jack DorseyAmerican software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
- Willow SmithAmerican singer and actress
- Sōichirō HondaJapanese engineer and industrialist
Born in Pig years
- Christina ApplegateAmerican actress
- Jesse EisenbergAmerican actor
- Calvin HarrisScottish electronic music producer and DJ
Also born on November 18
- Margaret Atwood1939
- Chloë Sevigny1974
- Megyn Kelly1970
- Rick Owens1961
- Andrew Forrest1961
- Allyson Felix1985
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Agnes de MilleAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Twyla TharpAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Jacques d'AmboiseAmerican dancer and choreographer
Other Scorpio Pig charts
- Marianne MooreAmerican poet
- Leland StoweAmerican journalist
- Sheryl WuDunnAmerican journalist and executive
- Carlos LozadaPeruvian-American journalist and nonfiction book critic
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Ted LevineAmerican actor (born 1957)
- Michael MadsenAmerican actor
- Charlton HestonAmerican actor
- Cathy Moriartyactress
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Coco ChanelFrench fashion designer
- Robert Downey Jr.American actor
- William, Prince of WalesHeir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth Realms
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Eugene’s cards
Computed from November 18, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q344023 (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 Halsman, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eugene Ormandy 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 Eugene Ormandy.
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.
- 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 was Eugene Ormandy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eugene Ormandy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
