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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.How compatible are you with Norman Dello Joio?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Norman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Norman sits
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Norman’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Norman Dello Joio, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Norman’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.9° to 5.0° orb
Norman’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.9° to 6.5° orb
Norman’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.0° orb
Norman’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.3° to 6.6° orb
Norman’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.3° to 6.4° orb
Norman’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 8°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Norman absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Norman is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosPisces 20°22′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Norman is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 26°12′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Norman needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Norman at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Norman’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Norman is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Norman’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Norman Dello Joio, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Norman’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1913, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Norman Dello Joio, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Norman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q724145, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Norman Dello Joio at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- 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 time was Norman Dello Joio born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1913 birth date.
- What was Norman Dello Joio's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1913 birth date.
- 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.
