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Gian Maria Volonte

Gian Maria Volonte (born April 9, 1933, Milan, Italy; died 1994), was an Italian actor. Volonte's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actor and Leopard of Honour.

Gian Maria Volonte’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Gian Maria Volonte’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Gian in the U.S.?

#956

US rank in 2025

~5,033

Americans share it since 1953

2023

its peak year

US records hold Gian from 1953 onward, though not for 1933 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2023 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

3

Personality · bright, quick

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

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Gian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Gian apart

Hugh Hefner (1926) and Elle Fanning (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Gian, according to the stars

Core essence

Gian leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Gian is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Gian wants to be loved

Gian wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Gian creates

How Gian 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. Gian 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: Gian is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Gian is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gian channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Gian's birth date. Working below.

Where Gian sits

Six lines

Gian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gian

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gian

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Gian

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gian

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Gian

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gian

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Gian Maria Volonte

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milan 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 Milan that night

Computed for 45.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Milan at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

Milan sits at 45.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −44.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Milan on any night.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.

How unusual Gian's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Aries · 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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Gian Maria Volonte at a glance

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Gian Maria Volonte's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 9, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Gian Maria Volonte was born on April 9, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 2

Diplomat by instinct.

Gian Maria Volonte's birth date, April 9, 1933, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Gian’s chart

Gian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.9° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.6° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Aries · 19°08′☉19°Moon in Libra · 4°09′☽4°Mercury in Pisces · 25°10′☿25°Venus in Aries · 15°58′♀15°Mars in Virgo · 0°54′ · retrograde♂℞0°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°43′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Aquarius · 14°35′♄14°Uranus in Aries · 23°06′♅23°Neptune in Virgo · 7°48′ · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Cancer · 21°14′♇21°

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

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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

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb

    Gian’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb

    Gian’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussquarePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Gian’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.8° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.3° to 17.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Gian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 25°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 19°52′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 12°06′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 29°43′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°06′ (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 square Neptune 0.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 2.6°

Gian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Gian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Venus, Saturn, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.1°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.6°

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Gian’s cards

Computed from April 9, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317110 (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 Elena Torre from Viareggio, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gian Maria Volonte at Wikipedia, gianmariavolonte.it and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gian Maria Volonte.

Quick answers about Gian Maria Volonte’s chart

What zodiac sign was Gian Maria Volonte?
Gian Maria Volonte was an Aries: born April 9, 1933, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Gian Maria Volonte's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1933 birth.
What was Gian Maria Volonte's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Gian Maria Volonte's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Gian Maria Volonte's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Gian Maria Volonte's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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