Quincy Porter
Quincy Porter (born February 7, 1897, New Haven, United States; died 1966), was an American composer. Porter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Quincy Porter’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Quincy
Quincy Porter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Quincy in the U.S.?
#654
US rank in 2025
~33,207
Americans share it since 1880
1977
its peak year
Quincy ranked 773rd in 1897, the year of this birth, with 9 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Quincy’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 Q (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Quincy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The record
What sets Quincy apart
Quincy Porter took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1929, at 32.
Vassar College and Schola Cantorum de Paris shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Quincy Porter under Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni, Musicians from New Haven, Connecticut and Pupils of Horatio Parker.
Tawakkol Karman (1979) and Ashton Kutcher (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Vassar College, Schola Cantorum de Paris and Yale University
- Instruments
- violin and viola
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1929) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1954)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Quincy, according to the stars
Core essence
Quincy is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Quincy 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 Quincy wants to be loved
Quincy wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Quincy creates
How Quincy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Quincy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Quincy is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Quincy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Quincy scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Quincy's birth date. Working below.
Where Quincy sits
Six lines
Quincy’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Quincy Porter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Haven 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 New Haven that night
Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over New Haven at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Haven at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Haven, United States
The death is recorded at Bethany, South Central Connecticut Planning Region in 1966.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Quincy Porter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Quincy's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Quincy Porter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 7, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Quincy Porter was born on February 7, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Quincy Porter's birth date, February 7, 1897, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Quincy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Quincy Porter's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Quincy Porter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Quincy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° 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
stableSuntrineNeptune1.1° to 2.2° orb
Quincy’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.2° orb
Quincy’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
Quincy’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.7° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.8° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Quincy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 13°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 10°45′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 13°54′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°38′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.1°
Quincy’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Quincy’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.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.3°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
More people like Quincy
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- Roy Acuff1903
- Albert Schweitzer1875
- Georg Solti1912
- Leo Sowerby1895
- Benny Carter1907
- Jean-Baptiste Perrin1870
Born in United States
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- Oliver Waterman LarkinAmerican art historian
- Quinto MaganiniAmerican conductor, composer and musicologist
- Ira GershwinAmerican lyricist
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- Wallis SimpsonAmerican socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor
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- Tawakkol Karman1979
- Ashton Kutcher1978
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- Heather GrahamAmerican actress
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Quincy’s cards
Computed from February 7, 1897. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Quincy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2033174 (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 Doncooke2, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Quincy Porter 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 Quincy Porter.
Quick answers about Quincy Porter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Quincy Porter?
- Quincy Porter was an Aquarius: born February 7, 1897, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Quincy Porter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 7, 1897 birth.
- What was Quincy Porter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Quincy Porter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Quincy Porter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Quincy Porter's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
