Norm Macdonald
Norm Macdonald (born October 17, 1959, Quebec City, Canada; died 2021), was a Canadian comedian.
Norm Macdonald’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Norm
Norm Macdonald’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Norm in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~562
Americans share it since 1935
1958
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1959, Norm came 1,491st, carried by 29 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Norm’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Norm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
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 1959, 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 Norm apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Quebec High School and Gloucester High School.
The working life starts in 1987, at 28.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Norm Macdonald: Canadian impressionists (entertainers), Amateur poker players and Anglophone Quebec people.
Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Quebec High School, Gloucester High School and Carleton University
- Working from
- 1987
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Norm, according to the stars
Core essence
Norm makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Norm is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Norm wants to be loved
Norm wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Norm and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Norm creates
How Norm makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Norm creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Norm 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Norm is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Norm fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Norm's birth date. Working below.
Where Norm sits
Six lines
Norm’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 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 Norm Macdonald
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Quebec City 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 Quebec City that night
Computed for 46.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Quebec City was Deneb, in Cygnus, 76.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
Quebec City sits at 46.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −43.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Quebec City on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Quebec City, Canada
The death is recorded at Duarte, Los Angeles County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Norm Macdonald: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Norm's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →Norm Macdonald at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Norm Macdonald's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Norm Macdonald was born on October 17, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Norm Macdonald's birth date, October 17, 1959, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Norm’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Norm Macdonald's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Norm Macdonald combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Norm’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Aries or 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
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 7.5° orb
Norm’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.8° orb
Norm’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Norm’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Norm’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 29°19′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°38′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 3.0°
Norm’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Norm’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 semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
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- Jens Petter HaugeNorwegian footballer (born 1999)
- Dejan LjubičićAustrian association football player
Born in Pig years
- Sam NeillNew Zealand actor
- Geoffrey HintonBritish-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
- Miranda KerrAustralian model
Also born on October 17
- Eminem1972
- Arthur Miller1915
- Rita Hayworth1918
- Kimi Räikkönen1979
- Mae Jemison1956
- Wyclef Jean1969
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Rachel GriffithsAustralian actress
- Fran WalshNew Zealand screenwriter and producer
- Patty DukeAmerican actress
Other Libra Pig charts
- John Franklyn MarsAmerican businessman
- Ding LeiChinese internet entrepreneur and billionaire
- Henry Nicholas IIIAmerican businessman, co-founder of Broadcom
- Stefan Perssonbusiness magnate
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Sanjay DuttIndian actor and politician
- Lana CondorVietnamese-American actress
- Cole SprouseAmerican actor
- Dylan SprouseAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Charlie RossAmerican journalist
- Marquis ChildsAmerican writer and journalist
- Andrew Sean GreerAmerican novelist and short story writer
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Norm’s cards
Computed from October 17, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Norm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1371229 (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 Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Norm Macdonald at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Norm Macdonald.
Quick answers about Norm Macdonald’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Norm Macdonald?
- Norm Macdonald was a Libra: born October 17, 1959, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Norm Macdonald's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1959 birth.
- What was Norm Macdonald's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Norm Macdonald's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Norm Macdonald's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Norm Macdonald's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
