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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Quincy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Quincy sits
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Quincy Porter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Aries or Taurus 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.
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
Quincy’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus3.6° to 4.1° orb
Quincy’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.2° orb
Quincy’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.4° to 4.6° orb
Quincy’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb
Quincy’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.8° orb
Quincy’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 13°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Quincy carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 10°45′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Quincy looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 13°54′ (moves 0.66° 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. Quincy is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°38′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Quincy is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Quincy is read as immovable on those points.
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 square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.1°
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°).
Quincy’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Quincy 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 Quincy’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Quincy Porter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Quincy’s cards
Every card is computed from February 7, 1897, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Quincy Porter, 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
Quincy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2033174, 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.
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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
- 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 time was Quincy Porter 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 Quincy Porter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 7, 1897 birth date.
- What was Quincy Porter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 7, 1897 birth date.
- 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.
