Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland (born November 7, 1926, Point Piper, Australia; died 2010), was an Australian soprano. Sutherland's honours include Order of Merit, Kennedy Center Honors and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Joan Sutherland’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Joan Sutherland’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Joan in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~488,939
Americans share it since 1880
1932
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Joan, according to the stars
Core essence
Joan does not do surface. The core of Joan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Joan is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Joan wants to be loved
Joan wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Joan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Joan creates
How Joan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Joan 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: Joan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Joan is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Joan is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Joan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joan sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Joan Sutherland in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Joan Sutherland's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Joan Sutherland was born on November 7, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Joan Sutherland's birth date, November 7, 1926, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Joan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joan Sutherland's date-only chart is Venus opposition Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joan Sutherland 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.
Joan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joan Sutherland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Joan’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Joan’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb
Joan’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrinePluto1.4° to 2.5° orb
Joan’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionMars3.0° to 4.3° orb
Joan’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Joan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.9° to 4.8° orb
Joan’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.2° orb
Joan’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Joan’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 ℞Aries 29°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Joan may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°03′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Joan is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°16′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Joan is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°42′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Joan is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Joan exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 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°).
Joan’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Joan is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Joan’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 Scorpio · Sun, Venus, 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 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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joan Sutherland, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Joan’s cards
Every card is computed from November 7, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joan Sutherland, 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
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207269, 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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joan Sutherland at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Joan Sutherland.
Quick answers about Joan Sutherland’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joan Sutherland?
- Joan Sutherland was a Scorpio: born November 7, 1926, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Joan Sutherland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1926 birth.
- What time was Joan Sutherland 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 was Joan Sutherland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 7, 1926 birth date.
- What was Joan Sutherland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 7, 1926 birth date.
- Where was Joan Sutherland's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joan Sutherland's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
