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George Crumb

George Crumb (born October 24, 1929, Charleston, United States; died 2022), was an American composer. Crumb's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Fulbright Scholarship and Guggenheim Fellowship.

George Crumb’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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George Crumb’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water 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 1929, 23,020 American boys and 201 girls were registered George — 8th among boys and 473rd 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5).

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 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Crimson · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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 George apart

The Arts and Letters Award in Music came in 1967, when George Crumb was 38.

George Crumb was taught at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UIUC College of Media.

On the family side, George Crumb was raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Musicians from Charleston, West Virginia, Pupils of Ross Lee Finney and Avant-garde composers.

PewDiePie (1989) and Malcolm Turnbull (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UIUC College of Media and University of Michigan
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Music (1968) and Arts and Letters Award in Music (1967)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
29

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George does not do surface. The core of George 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 George is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, George 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 George needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How George wants to be loved

George wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. George gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How George creates

How George makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. George creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: George is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means George runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
George

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
George

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
George

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to George Crumb

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Charleston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

George’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 78.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 22.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Charleston that night

Computed for 38.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Charleston at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.9° above the horizon in Pegasus.

Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Charleston sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Charleston at all: they sit past the −51.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 53% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Charleston, United States

The death is recorded at Media, Delaware County in 2022.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Crumb: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual George's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

George Crumb's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 24, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

George Crumb was born on October 24, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

George Crumb's birth date, October 24, 1929, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.7° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.2° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 6.7° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 7° orbSun in Scorpio · 0°48′☉0°Moon in Cancer · 22°21′☽22°Mercury in Libra · 12°35′☿12°Venus in Libra · 5°33′♀5°Mars in Scorpio · 12°28′♂12°Jupiter in Gemini · 15°47′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Sagittarius · 26°23′♄26°Uranus in Aries · 8°33′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 3°05′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°38′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb

    George’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb

    George’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 3.8° orb

    George’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.0° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.8° to 15.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.1° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 3.2° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysquarePlutoorb from 6.5° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 18°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 26°42′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 5°07′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Mars 0.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.2°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars

Configurations in George’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

George’s cards

Computed from October 24, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q356804 (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 Peter Matthews from New York City, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same George Crumb at Wikipedia, georgecrumb.net, 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 Crumb.

Quick answers about George Crumb’s chart

What zodiac sign was George Crumb?
George Crumb was a Scorpio: born October 24, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was George Crumb's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 24, 1929 birth.
What was George Crumb's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was George Crumb's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was George Crumb's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was George Crumb's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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