Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928, San Francisco, United States; died 2020), was an American conductor and pianist. Fleisher's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Leon Fleisher’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Leon
Leon Fleisher’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Leon in the U.S.?
#138
US rank in 2025
~184,074
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1928, Leon came 81st among boys and 1,618th among girls, carried by 2,460 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
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 1928, 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 Leon apart
Leon Fleisher took the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2006, at 78.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Leon Fleisher: Conductors (music) from San Francisco, Academic staff of The Royal Conservatory of Music and Musicians with dystonia.
The same date carries Vera Rubin. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2006)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 24
What the chart says
Leon, according to the stars
Core essence
Leon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Leon 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Leon cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Leon needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Leon wants to be loved
Leon wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Leon openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Leon creates
How Leon makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Leon builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Leon is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Leon is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Leon 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 Leon's birth date. Working below.
Where Leon sits
Six lines
Leon’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Leon Fleisher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Rastaban, in Draco, 74.4° up.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon up and 46% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
The death is recorded at Baltimore, Maryland in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leon Fleisher: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leon's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Leon Fleisher's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 23, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Leon Fleisher was born on July 23, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Leon Fleisher's birth date, July 23, 1928, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Leon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leon Fleisher's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leon Fleisher combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Leon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Leon’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.8° to 1.9° orb
Leon’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssextilePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb
Leon’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 3.0° to 15.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Leon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 17°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 17°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 20°08′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.9°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
Leon’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Leon’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.1°
Born the same day as Leon
Vera Rubin was born on July 23, 1928 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.8°N, the sky above San Francisco stops at −52.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Leon
Other conductors
- Merce Cunningham1919
- Seiji Ozawa1935
- Eugene Ormandy1899
- Zubin Mehta1936
- James Levine1943
Born in United States
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- Patrick McGoohanIrish-American actor
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Fellow Leo suns
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on July 23
- Haile Selassie I1892
- Daniel Radcliffe1989
- Philip Seymour Hoffman1967
- Woody Harrelson1961
- Vera Rubin1928
- Paul Wesley1982
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Kam JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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Other Leo Dragon charts
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Other Evergreen Architects
- Rui SilvaPortuguese footballer (born 1994)
- Alessandro SchöpfAustrian footballer (born 1994)
- Mark FlekkenDutch footballer (born 1993)
- Mory DiawSenegalese and French footballer
Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Leon’s cards
Computed from July 23, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1356487 (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 Seattle Symphony Orchestra, where he was one of their featured artists for the season; photographer: Bender, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leon Fleisher at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leon Fleisher.
Quick answers about Leon Fleisher’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leon Fleisher?
- Leon Fleisher was a Leo: born July 23, 1928, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Leon Fleisher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1928 birth.
- What was Leon Fleisher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leon Fleisher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leon Fleisher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leon Fleisher's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
