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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Leonard
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.
How common is the name Leonard in the U.S.?
#637
US rank in 2025
~295,746
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Leonard ranked 41st among boys and 1,432nd among girls in 1918, the year of this birth, with 4,980 American boys and 30 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Leonard apart
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Leonard sits
Six lines
Leonard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Leonard Bernstein
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lawrence 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 Lawrence that night
Computed for 42.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lawrence at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.7°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 Lawrence at all: they sit past the −47.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 80% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual Leonard's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Aries 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
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
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus5.6° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 3°49′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.5°
Leonard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Leonard’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Catherine McCormackBritish actress
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- Robert Sean LeonardAmerican actor
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Other Evergreen Seekers
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Leonard’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q152505 (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 Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leonard Bernstein.
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.
- 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 was Leonard Bernstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leonard Bernstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
