Norman Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio (born January 24, 1913, New York City, United States; died 2008), was an American composer. Joio's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts and Letters Award in Music.
Norman Dello Joio’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Norman
Norman Dello Joio’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Norman in the U.S.?
#1200
US rank in 2025
~254,762
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1913, Norman came 57th among boys and 1,981st among girls, carried by 1,748 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Norman’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 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
Norman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
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
The record
What sets Norman apart
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Norman, according to the stars
Core essence
Norman is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Norman is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Norman wants to be loved
Norman wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Norman, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Norman creates
How Norman 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. Norman 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: Norman is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Norman is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Norman does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Norman's birth date. Working below.
Where Norman sits
Six lines
Norman’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 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.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Norman's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · 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
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Norman Dello Joio's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Norman Dello Joio was born on January 24, 1913, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Norman Dello Joio's birth date, January 24, 1913, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Norman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Norman Dello Joio's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire.
- Norman Dello Joio combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Norman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Norman’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.3° to 1.8° orb
Norman’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.1° to 3.7° orb
Norman’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.9° to 6.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.3° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Norman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 8°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 20°22′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 26°12′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.4°
Norman’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Norman’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.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
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Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
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- Mischa Barton1986
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- Cheryl Diaz MeyerFilipino-American independent photojournalist (born 1968)
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Other Evergreen Guardians
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Norman’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Norman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q724145 (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 Norman Dello Joio at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Norman Dello Joio.
Quick answers about Norman Dello Joio’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Norman Dello Joio?
- Norman Dello Joio was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1913, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1913 birth.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Norman Dello Joio's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
