Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt (born May 10, 1916, Philadelphia, United States; died 2011), was an American composer. Babbitt's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Milton Babbitt’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Milton
Milton Babbitt’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Milton in the U.S.?
#1440
US rank in 2025
~118,551
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1916, Milton came 72nd among boys and 1,931st among girls, carried by 2,345 American boys and 18 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Milton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Milton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Milton apart
Linda Evangelista (1965) and Miuccia Prada (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Milton, according to the stars
Core essence
Milton 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 Milton 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Milton needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Milton needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Milton wants to be loved
Milton wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Milton gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Milton creates
How Milton makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Milton creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Milton 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Milton 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Milton fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Milton's birth date. Working below.
Where Milton sits
Six lines
Milton’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Milton Babbitt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°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 Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 57% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
How unusual Milton's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3 unaspected planets · T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Milton Babbitt's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 10, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Milton Babbitt was born on May 10, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Milton Babbitt's birth date, May 10, 1916, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Milton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Milton Babbitt's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Milton Babbitt combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Milton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Leo 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Milton’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 7.3° orb
Milton’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.0° to 1.3° orb
Milton’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.3° to 2.6° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.2° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.9° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Milton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°19′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 19°60′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°16′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 16°22′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros square Venus 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.8°
Milton’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Milton’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.1°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
More people like Milton
Other composers
- George Walker1922
- Georg Solti1912
- Robert Ward1917
- Elliott Carter1908
- Dave Brubeck1920
- Henry Brant1913
Born in United States
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Crystal HarrisAmerican model
- Sasha FarberAustralian and American professional dancer
- Kevin JamesAmerican comedian and actor
Born in Dragon years
- Charles VanelFrench actor and director
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- Conrad VeidtGerman actor
Also born on May 10
- Linda Evangelista1965
- Miuccia Prada1948
- Aya Nakamura1995
- Thomas Lipton1848
- Nadia Ferreira1999
- Odette Annable1985
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Joey BlountAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jake BatesAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Za'Darius SmithAmerican football player (born 1992)
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Malcolm WaiteAmerican actor
- James GammonAmerican actor
- Robert ZemeckisAmerican screenwriter, film producer and director (born 1952)
- Giorgio MoroderItalian record producer and composer (born 1940)
Other Radiant Architects
- Buddy HieldBahamian basketball player (born 1992)
- Nolan TraoréFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Jeremiah FearsAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Alex HaleyAmerican biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
- Charles IvesAmerican modernist composer
- William SafireAmerican journalist and presidential speechwriter
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Milton’s cards
Computed from May 10, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Milton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318518 (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 Milton Babbitt at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Milton Babbitt.
Quick answers about Milton Babbitt’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Milton Babbitt?
- Milton Babbitt was a Taurus: born May 10, 1916, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Milton Babbitt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1916 birth.
- What was Milton Babbitt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Milton Babbitt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Milton Babbitt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Milton Babbitt's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
