George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, United States; died 1937), was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin is best remembered for The Man I Love, An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Grammy Trustees Award and Congressional Gold Medal.
George Gershwin’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dog, with 
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George Gershwin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Blush · Terracotta
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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of George is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, George needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What George needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with George even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. George is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means George does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from George's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
George Gershwin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 26, 1898, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Dog
Earth DogGuards the gate all night.
George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
George Gershwin's birth date, September 26, 1898, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Gershwin's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- George Gershwin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for George Gershwin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Aquarius 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.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.7° to 2.2° orb
George’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.1° to 1.3° orb
George’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunsextileUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb
George’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.6° to 3.1° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars2.9° to 3.8° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.0° to 3.3° orb
George’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.4° to 4.3° orb
George’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
George’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.9° orb
George’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 26°24′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has George carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresVirgo 18°34′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has George caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 9°41′ (moves 0.03° 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.
⚕ HygieaLeo 27°58′ (moves 0.34° 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 LilithCancer 12°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has George guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 conjunction Mars 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.6°
- Ceres square 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°).
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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: George is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Gershwin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
George’s family here
One relative of George Gershwin also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
George’s cards
Every card is computed from September 26, 1898, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for George Gershwin, 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 Q123829, 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Gershwin 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 George Gershwin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Gershwin?
- George Gershwin was a Libra: born September 26, 1898, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog.
- What was George Gershwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 26, 1898 birth.
- What time was George Gershwin 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 Gershwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 26, 1898 birth date.
- What was George Gershwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 26, 1898 birth date.
- Where was George Gershwin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Gershwin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
