John Corigliano
John Corigliano (born February 16, 1938, New York City, United States), aged 88, is an American composer (born 1938). Corigliano's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Score, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
John Corigliano’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with John
John Corigliano’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1938, 50,517 American boys and 216 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 457th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 9: care against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 John apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1968, when John Corigliano was 30.
John Corigliano was taught at Manhattan School of Music and Midwood High School.
On the family side, John Corigliano was born to John Corigliano.
On Wikipedia the categories read Manhattan School of Music alumni, Best Original Score Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners and Midwood High School alumni.
The Weeknd (1990) and Bebeto (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Manhattan School of Music, Midwood High School and Columbia University
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Score (2000), Guggenheim Fellowship (1968) and Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1991)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of John is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. John creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: John 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. John is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means John gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 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 John Corigliano
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.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
John Corigliano's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
John Corigliano was born on February 16, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
John Corigliano's birth date, February 16, 1938, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Corigliano's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- John Corigliano combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.8° orb
John’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.6° to 1.1° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.7° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 2.8° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 6.5° to 20.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 25°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°07′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 26°32′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 1°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.3°
- Eros trine Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.7°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like John
Other composers
- Bernard Rands1934
- John Harbison1938
- Merle Haggard1937
- Giorgio Moroder1940
- Roger Reynolds1934
- Charles Wuorinen1938
Born in United States
- Jared DiamondAmerican scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
- William BolcomAmerican composer (born 1938)
- Ted WhiteAmerican writer
- Hampton FancherAmerican actor and director
- Warren L. LerudeAmerican journalist and professor of journalism
- David BaltimoreAmerican biologist and Nobel laureate
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Born in Tiger years
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- Stefano GabbanaItalian fashion designer
Also born on February 16
- The Weeknd1990
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- Ice-T1958
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
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- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Owen Willans RichardsonBritish physicist
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Other Steadfast Guardians
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
John’s cards
Computed from February 16, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q450620 (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 Michael Bednarek, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Corigliano 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 John Corigliano.
Quick answers about John Corigliano’s chart
- How old is John Corigliano?
- John Corigliano is 88 years old, born February 16, 1938 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Corigliano?
- John Corigliano is an Aquarius: born February 16, 1938, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is John Corigliano's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1938 birth.
- What is John Corigliano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Corigliano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Corigliano's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Corigliano's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
