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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Joan
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.?
#987
US rank in 2025
~488,939
Americans share it since 1880
1932
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,995 American girls and 27 boys named Joan in 1926: 51st among girls and 1,419th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joan apart
The Australian of the Year came in 1961, when Joan Sutherland was 35.
Study took Joan Sutherland to Royal College of Music.
Joan Sutherland was 21 when the work began in 1947.
The record gives heart failure as the cause, and Cemetery of Clarens as the resting place.
Joan Sutherland was born to Julianne McClure and Hugh Reskymer Bonython and married Richard Bonynge.
Wikipedia files Joan Sutherland under Australian expatriates in Switzerland, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.
Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Order of Merit (1991), Australian of the Year (1961) and Companion of the Order of Australia (1975)
- Working from
- 1947
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Cemetery of Clarens
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
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. Working below.
Where Joan sits
Six lines
Joan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Joan Sutherland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Point Piper 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 Point Piper that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Point Piper at 9 p.m. that evening: Ankaa of Phoenix, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Point Piper sits at 33.9°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon, 4% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Point Piper, Australia
The death is recorded at Montreux, Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in 2010.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joan Sutherland: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joan's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Mars retrograde
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 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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunoppositionMars3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 29°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°03′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°16′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°42′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Joan’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Joan’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on November 7
- Marie Curie1867
- Albert Camus1913
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1888
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- Lisa Su1969
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Barbara StrauchAmerican writer
- Robert ColesAmerican psychiatrist
- Emily NussbaumAmerican television critic
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
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- Josh PeckAmerican actor and comedian (born 1986)
- Matthew RhysWelsh actor
- Mark SanchezAmerican football player (born 1986)
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
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- Lee PaceAmerican actor
- Michael JohnsonAmerican sprinter
- Serge IbakaCongolese-Spanish basketball player
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Joan’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207269 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Joan Sutherland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joan Sutherland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
