Morton Gould
Morton Gould (born December 10, 1913, Richmond Hill, United States; died 1996), was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Gould is best remembered for Cowboy Rhapsody. Gould's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Morton Gould’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Morton
Morton Gould’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Morton in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~12,341
Americans share it since 1880
1923
its peak year
The SSA recorded 185 American boys named Morton in 1913: 292nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Morton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Morton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Morton apart
Ada Lovelace (1815) and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Morton, according to the stars
Core essence
Morton is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Morton is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Morton is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Morton needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Morton wants to be loved
Morton wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Morton and watch them fall for you again.
How Morton creates
How Morton makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Morton creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Morton is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Morton 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Morton does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Morton's birth date. Working below.
Where Morton sits
Six lines
Morton’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Morton Gould
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Richmond Hill 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 Richmond Hill that night
Computed for 40.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Richmond Hill at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.5° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Richmond Hill sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Richmond Hill at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Morton's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Morton Gould's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Morton Gould was born on December 10, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Morton Gould's birth date, December 10, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Morton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Morton Gould's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Morton Gould 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.
Morton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Taurus 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Morton’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussextileUranus1.4° to 2.6° orb
Morton’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.0° orb
Morton’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.5° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.6° to 5.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.3° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.6° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 2.6° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Morton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 2°21′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 12°11′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 17°24′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 3.0°
Morton’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Morton’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Mars 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.9°
More people like Morton
Other composers
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- Leon Kirchner1919
- Charles Singleton1913
- George Walker1922
- William Schuman1910
- Robert Ward1917
Born in United States
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- Ada Lovelace1815
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- Teyana Taylor1990
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Morton’s cards
Computed from December 10, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Morton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1352656 (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 Morton Gould 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 Morton Gould.
Quick answers about Morton Gould’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Morton Gould?
- Morton Gould was a Sagittarius: born December 10, 1913, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Morton Gould's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 10, 1913 birth.
- What was Morton Gould's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Morton Gould's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Morton Gould's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Morton Gould's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
