Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller (born November 22, 1925, New York City, United States; died 2015), was an American composer and conductor. Schuller's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Gunther Schuller’s zodiac sign was Scorpio or Sagittarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gunther
How common is the name Gunther in the U.S.?
#5466
US rank in 2025
~1,098
Americans share it since 1924
1995
its peak year
Gunther ranked 4,496th in 1925, the year of this birth, with 5 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gunther’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gunther’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Gunther apart
Gunther Schuller took the Arts and Letters Award in Music in 1960, at 35.
Training came by way of Jamaica High School and Saint Thomas Choir School.
Cause of death is recorded as leukemia.
Wikipedia's editors put Gunther Schuller under Orchestra U.S.A. members, American classical horn players and Culture of Boston.
Scarlett Johansson (1984) and Mark Ruffalo (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Jamaica High School and Saint Thomas Choir School
- Instruments
- horn
- Awards
- Stoeger Prize (1987), Laurel Leaf Award (1976) and Arts and Letters Award in Music (1960)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 24
What the chart says
Gunther, according to the stars
How Gunther wants to be loved
Gunther wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Gunther you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Gunther creates
How Gunther makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gunther creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Gunther is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gunther is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Gunther 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 Gunther's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 50% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gunther Schuller: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gunther's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet
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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Scorpio or Sagittarius Sun
Gunther Schuller was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Gunther Schuller was born on November 22, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Gunther Schuller's birth date, November 22, 1925, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Gunther’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gunther Schuller's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
Gunther’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Gunther’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.2° orb
Gunther’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Gunther’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto5.9° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Gunther’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 22°36′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 17°34′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 23°36′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.2°
- Eros square Venus 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.9°
Gunther’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Gunther’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Gunther’s cards
Computed from November 22, 1925. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gunther’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q704154 (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 The original uploader was Nrswanson at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gunther Schuller 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 Gunther Schuller.
Quick answers about Gunther Schuller’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gunther Schuller?
- Gunther Schuller was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Gunther Schuller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1925 birth.
- What was Gunther Schuller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gunther Schuller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gunther Schuller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gunther Schuller's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
