George Balanchine
George Balanchine (born January 22, 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russia; died 1983), was an American choreographer, dancer and ballet master. Balanchine's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.
George Balanchine’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with George
George Balanchine’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1904, 4,219 American boys and 26 girls were registered George — 4th among boys and 689th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) 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
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The record
What sets George apart
Lev Landau (1908) and Netta Barzilai (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of George is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, George is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What George needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George and watch them fall for you again.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. George creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: George 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 1 is the pioneer. George is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of George leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; George slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 George Balanchine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint Petersburg 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 Saint Petersburg that night
Computed for 59.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Saint Petersburg was Capella, in Auriga, 75.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 60.0°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −30.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Jupiter · 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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
George Balanchine's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 22, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
George Balanchine was born on January 22, 1904, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
George Balanchine's birth date, January 22, 1904, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Balanchine's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- George Balanchine combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Pisces 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 6.5° orb
George’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
George’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.8° to 2.0° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.3° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.2° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.8° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°22′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°04′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°17′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 3°31′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.0°
- Ceres square Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.3°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.2°
George’s family here
One relative of George Balanchine also has a chart on AsterNym.
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- Linda B. BuckAmerican biologist
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on January 22
- Lev Landau1908
- Netta Barzilai1993
- Pau Cubarsí2007
- Michael Hutchence1960
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- Bhuvan Bam1994
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- George Paget ThomsonEnglish physicist
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Other Evergreen Scholars
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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George’s cards
Computed from January 22, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310184 (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 Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Balanchine 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 George Balanchine.
Quick answers about George Balanchine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Balanchine?
- George Balanchine was an Aquarius: born January 22, 1904, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was George Balanchine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 22, 1904 birth.
- What was George Balanchine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Balanchine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Balanchine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Balanchine's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
