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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Gustavo
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.
How common is the name Gustavo in the U.S.?
#625
US rank in 2025
~40,461
Americans share it since 1911
2000
its peak year
Gustavo ranked 755th in 1951, the year of this birth, with 86 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gustavo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gustavo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Gustavo apart
Gustavo Santaolalla took the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2003, at 52.
The working life starts in 1967, at 16.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Gustavo Santaolalla under Argentine male film score composers, Rock en español musicians and Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
The same date carries Carl Bennet. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Instruments
- guitar, banjo, charango and bass guitar
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Score (2007), BAFTA Award for Best Original Music (2005) and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2006)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- Working from
- 1967
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 39
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. Working below.
Where Gustavo sits
Six lines
Gustavo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Gustavo Santaolalla
Three stars chosen from the real sky above El Palomar 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 El Palomar that night
Computed for 34.63°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at El Palomar at 9 p.m. that evening: Kaus Australis of Sagittarius, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 69 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 34.6°S there are stars that never set at all. Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
How unusual Gustavo's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Uranus · 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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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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.6° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°54′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 20°21′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 18°08′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Gustavo’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gustavo’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Gustavo
Carl Bennet was born on August 19, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 34.6°S, El Palomar keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Argentina
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Gustavo’s cards
Computed from August 19, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gustavo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312434 (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 Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 is Gustavo Santaolalla's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gustavo Santaolalla's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
