Michael Colgrass
Michael Colgrass (born April 22, 1932, Brookfield, United States; died 2019), was a Canadian musician and composer. Colgrass's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Michael Colgrass’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Colgrass’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1932, Michael came 54th among boys and 1,797th among girls, carried by 3,607 American boys and 20 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Michael apart
Michael Colgrass took the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1978, at 46.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Illinois Chicago and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The working life starts in 1944, at 12.
Cause of death is recorded as skin cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Michael Colgrass: Musicians from Toronto, Composers from Illinois and Canadian classical composers.
Robert Oppenheimer (1904) and Jack Nicholson (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UIUC College of Media
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (1978)
- Working from
- 1944
- Cause of death
- skin cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Michael is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Michael like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Michael creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Michael 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Michael 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 Michael's birth date. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Michael Colgrass
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brookfield 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 Brookfield that night
Computed for 41.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brookfield was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.8°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 Brookfield at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brookfield, United States
The death is recorded at Toronto, Ontario in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michael Colgrass: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Michael Colgrass's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 22, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Michael Colgrass was born on April 22, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Michael Colgrass's birth date, April 22, 1932, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Colgrass' date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Michael Colgrass combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableUranussquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Michael’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.8° to 1.7° orb
Michael’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.8° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableVenussextileUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.2° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°01′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°17′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°33′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°07′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.4°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Michael’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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
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Michael’s cards
Computed from April 22, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2604332 (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 Michael Colgrass at Wikipedia, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Colgrass.
Quick answers about Michael Colgrass’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Colgrass?
- Michael Colgrass was a Taurus: born April 22, 1932, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Michael Colgrass's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1932 birth.
- What was Michael Colgrass's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Colgrass's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michael Colgrass's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Colgrass's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
