Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner (born January 24, 1919, Brooklyn, United States; died 2009), was an American composer. Kirchner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
Leon Kirchner’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Leon
Leon Kirchner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
In 1919, 2,250 American boys and 34 girls were registered Leon — 80th among boys and 1,339th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
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
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1948, when Leon Kirchner was 29.
Leon Kirchner lies at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read Pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, University at Buffalo faculty and Music & Arts artists.
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1948), Pulitzer Prize for Music (1967) and Rome Prize (1974)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Buried at
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Leon, according to the stars
Core essence
Leon is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Leon 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Leon feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Leon needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Leon wants to be loved
Leon wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Leon be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Leon creates
How Leon makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Leon creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Leon is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Leon 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Leon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 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 Leon Kirchner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 42% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leon Kirchner: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Aquarius
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 →Leon Kirchner at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Leon Kirchner's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Leon Kirchner was born on January 24, 1919, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Leon Kirchner's birth date, January 24, 1919, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Leon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leon Kirchner's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leon Kirchner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Leon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Scorpio 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
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Leon’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb
Leon’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Leon’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.2° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.3° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.8° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Leon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 11°56′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 17°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.8°
Leon’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Leon’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 2.0°
More people like Leon
Other composers
- Dizzy Gillespie1917
- Eddie Snyder1919
- Robert Ward1917
- John La Montaine1920
- Milton Babbitt1916
- Dave Brubeck1920
Born in United States
- William Morris MeredithAmerican poet
- Tim HoltAmerican actor
- Teresa WrightAmerican actress
- Eddie SnyderAmerican composer and songwriter
- Rita HayworthAmerican actress
- Nat King ColeAmerican singer and jazz pianist
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
- Frankie Grande1983
- Tatyana Ali1979
- Mischa Barton1986
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Bert SakmannGerman biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize)
- Otto LoewiJewish-German pharmacologist
- Jerome KarleAmerican physical chemist
Other Aquarius Horse charts
- John TravoltaAmerican actor
- James DeanAmerican actor
- Hideki YukawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Ashton KutcherAmerican actor
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Kendrick BourneAmerican football wide receiver
- Thomas OdukoyaAmerican football player
- Cooper RushAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Damone ClarkAmerican football linebacker
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jordie BarrettNew Zealand rugby union player (1997-)
- Artur BeterbievRussian boxer
- Amanda SerranoPuerto Rican boxer and mixed martial artist
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Leon’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q928971 (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.
The same Leon Kirchner 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 Kirchner.
Quick answers about Leon Kirchner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leon Kirchner?
- Leon Kirchner was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1919, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Leon Kirchner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1919 birth.
- What was Leon Kirchner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leon Kirchner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leon Kirchner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leon Kirchner's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
