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Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore (born May 27, 1956, Bagheria, Italy), aged 70, is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Tornatore is best known for Baarìa and Cinema Paradiso. Tornatore's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film.

Giuseppe Tornatore’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Giuseppe Tornatore’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1459

US rank in 2025

~6,365

Americans share it since 1905

1975

its peak year

The SSA recorded 9 American boys named Giuseppe in 1956: 2,863rd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Giuseppe’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

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

Giuseppe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Giuseppe apart

Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Giuseppe, according to the stars

Core essence

Giuseppe is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Giuseppe needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Giuseppe is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Giuseppe needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Giuseppe wants to be loved

Giuseppe wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Giuseppe gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Giuseppe creates

How Giuseppe makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Giuseppe builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Giuseppe is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Giuseppe is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Giuseppe goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Giuseppe's birth date. Working below.

Where Giuseppe sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Giuseppe

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Giuseppe

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Giuseppe

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Giuseppe

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

PracticalVisionary
Giuseppe

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Giuseppe

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Giuseppe Tornatore

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

Computed for 38.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Bagheria at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Bagheria sits at 38.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bagheria on any night.

Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon down and 91% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Giuseppe's chart is

Chart pattern score

41 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · No Earth planets · 2 planets 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

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Giuseppe Tornatore's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Giuseppe Tornatore's birth date, May 27, 1956, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Giuseppe’s chart

Giuseppe’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.4° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 1.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.3° orbSun in Gemini · 6°07′☉6°Moon in Capricorn · 7°22′☽7°Mercury in Gemini · 3°54′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Cancer · 8°40′♀8°Mars in Aquarius · 26°06′♂26°Jupiter in Leo · 23°48′♃23°Saturn in Scorpio · 29°01′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Cancer · 29°22′♅29°Neptune in Libra · 28°06′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Leo · 26°11′♇26°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Giuseppe’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.2° orb

    Giuseppe’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Giuseppe’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.1° to 2.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus4.2° to 4.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 11°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 6°02′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 11°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 0°22′

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.4°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.6°

Giuseppe’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Giuseppe’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Jupiter, SaturnAn 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.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°

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Giuseppe’s cards

Computed from May 27, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Giuseppe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q53045 (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 Giuseppe Tornatore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Giuseppe Tornatore 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 Giuseppe Tornatore.

Quick answers about Giuseppe Tornatore’s chart

How old is Giuseppe Tornatore?
Giuseppe Tornatore is 70 years old, born May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Italy.
What zodiac sign is Giuseppe Tornatore?
Giuseppe Tornatore is a Gemini: born May 27, 1956, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Giuseppe Tornatore's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1956 birth.
What is Giuseppe Tornatore's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Giuseppe Tornatore's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Giuseppe Tornatore's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Giuseppe Tornatore's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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