Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Santaolalla (born August 19, 1951, El Palomar, Argentina), aged 75, is an Argentine musician and composer. Santaolalla's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Gustavo Santaolalla’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Gustavo Santaolalla’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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~40,461
Americans share it since 1880
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Gustavo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Gustavo, according to the stars
Core essence
Gustavo is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gustavo is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Gustavo wants to be loved
Gustavo wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gustavo and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gustavo creates
How Gustavo makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gustavo creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Gustavo is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Gustavo 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gustavo fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gustavo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gustavo sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Gustavo Santaolalla in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Gustavo Santaolalla's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Gustavo Santaolalla was born on August 19, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Gustavo Santaolalla's birth date, August 19, 1951, 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 Gustavo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gustavo Santaolalla's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Gustavo Santaolalla combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Gustavo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gustavo Santaolalla, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Gustavo’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Gustavo’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Gustavo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.4° to 2.7° orb
Gustavo’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° orb
Gustavo’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Gustavo’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquareNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
Gustavo’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.6° orb
Gustavo’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.9° orb
Gustavo’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 4.3° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Gustavo’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°54′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Gustavo building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Gustavo is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 20°21′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Gustavo is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 18°08′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Gustavo needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°12′ (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 Gustavo 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.
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.6°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.2°
- Eros opposition Neptune 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°).
Gustavo’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gustavo is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Gustavo’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.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gustavo Santaolalla, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gustavo
Carl Bennet was born on August 19, 1951 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Gustavo’s cards
Every card is computed from August 19, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gustavo Santaolalla, 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
Gustavo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312434, 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 Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gustavo Santaolalla at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gustavo Santaolalla.
Quick answers about Gustavo Santaolalla’s chart
- How old is Gustavo Santaolalla?
- Gustavo Santaolalla is 75 years old, born August 19, 1951 in El Palomar, Argentina.
- What zodiac sign is Gustavo Santaolalla?
- Gustavo Santaolalla is a Leo: born August 19, 1951, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- What is Gustavo Santaolalla's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1951 birth.
- What time was Gustavo Santaolalla 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 is Gustavo Santaolalla's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 19, 1951 birth date.
- What is Gustavo Santaolalla's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 19, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Gustavo Santaolalla's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gustavo Santaolalla's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
