Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto (born January 19, 1924, Providence, United States; died 1985), was an American actor and television director.
Nicholas Colasanto’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Nicholas
Nicholas Colasanto’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nicholas in the U.S.?
#112
US rank in 2025
~929,199
Americans share it since 1880
1995
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1924, Nicholas came 122nd among boys and 2,774th among girls, carried by 1,488 American boys and 13 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nicholas’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 N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 1923, 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 Nicholas apart
Training came by way of Bryant University and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
The working life starts in 1959, at 35.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Saint Ann Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nicholas Colasanto: Bryant University alumni, Military personnel from Rhode Island and Male actors from Providence, Rhode Island.
Dolly Parton (1946) and Janis Joplin (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bryant University and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Working from
- 1959
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Saint Ann Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Nicholas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicholas is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Nicholas is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Nicholas creates
How Nicholas 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. Nicholas 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: Nicholas is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nicholas 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.
Computed from Nicholas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nicholas sits
Six lines
Nicholas’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Nicholas Colasanto
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Providence 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 Providence that night
Computed for 41.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Providence at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Providence on any night.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Providence, United States
The death is recorded at Studio City, Los Angeles in 1985.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nicholas Colasanto: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Nicholas's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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 →Nicholas Colasanto at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Nicholas Colasanto's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 19, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Nicholas Colasanto was born on January 19, 1924, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Nicholas Colasanto's birth date, January 19, 1924, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Nicholas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nicholas Colasanto's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Nicholas Colasanto combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Nicholas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Nicholas’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Nicholas’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.5° orb
Nicholas’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.1° to 0.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.4° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 3.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 6.5° to 19.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Nicholas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 16°44′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°19′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 14°52′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 18°23′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 22°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres square Mars 0.6°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
Nicholas’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Nicholas’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.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
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Also born on January 19
- Dolly Parton1946
- Janis Joplin1943
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Nicholas’s cards
Computed from January 19, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q959202 (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.
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The same Nicholas Colasanto at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Nicholas Colasanto’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nicholas Colasanto?
- Nicholas Colasanto was a Capricorn: born January 19, 1924, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Nicholas Colasanto's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 19, 1924 birth.
- What was Nicholas Colasanto's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nicholas Colasanto's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nicholas Colasanto's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nicholas Colasanto's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
