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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where George sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for George Balanchine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Pisces 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.
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
George’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.3° to 2.1° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.4° to 2.7° orb
George’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarssextileUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
George’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
George’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.2° to 6.4° orb
George’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.8° to 8.0° orb
George’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°22′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. George is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°04′ (moves 0.36° 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. George is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 28°17′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. George is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 3°31′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has George at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has George at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
George’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: George is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 George’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Balanchine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
George’s family here
One relative of George Balanchine also has a chart on AsterNym.
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George’s cards
Every card is computed from January 22, 1904, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for George Balanchine, 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
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310184, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit.
- 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 time was George Balanchine 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 George Balanchine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 22, 1904 birth date.
- What was George Balanchine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 22, 1904 birth date.
- 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.
