Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (born August 25, 1918, Lawrence, United States; died 1990), was an American conductor and composer. Bernstein is best remembered for West Side Story, Candide and Symphony No. 3. Bernstein's honours include Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grammy Awards and Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal.
Leonard Bernstein’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Leonard Bernstein’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Leonard, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Leonard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonard runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Leonard needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Leonard wants to be loved
Leonard 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 Leonard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Leonard creates
How Leonard 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. Leonard 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: Leonard 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 7 is the seeker. Leonard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Leonard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Leonard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Leonard sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Leonard Bernstein's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Leonard Bernstein's birth date, August 25, 1918, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Leonard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leonard Bernstein's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn 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.
- Leonard Bernstein combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Leonard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Leonard Bernstein, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Aries 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.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 1.3° orb
Leonard’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto0.6° to 1.3° orb
Leonard’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.1° to 2.7° orb
Leonard’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
Leonard’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.4° orb
Leonard’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
Leonard’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
Leonard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus5.5° to 5.7° orb
Leonard’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.6° to 6.6° orb
Leonard’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 3.7° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Leonard’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 2°29′ (moves 0.04° 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: Leonard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Leonard is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 3°49′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Leonard loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Leonard feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Leonard that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.5°
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°).
Leonard’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Leonard is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Leonard’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Leonard Bernstein, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Leonard’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Leonard Bernstein, 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
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q152505, 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 Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Leonard Bernstein’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leonard Bernstein?
- Leonard Bernstein was a Virgo: born August 25, 1918, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Leonard Bernstein's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1918 birth.
- What time was Leonard Bernstein 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 Leonard Bernstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1918 birth date.
- What was Leonard Bernstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Leonard Bernstein's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leonard Bernstein's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
