Ross Lee Finney
Ross Lee Finney (born December 23, 1906, Wells, United States; died 1997), was an American composer. Finney's honours include Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize and Arts and Letters Award in Music.
Ross Lee Finney’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ross
Ross Lee Finney’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ross in the U.S.?
#1465
US rank in 2025
~82,293
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
Ross ranked 202nd in 1906, the year of this birth, with 88 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ross’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ross’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1906, 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 Ross apart
Ross Lee Finney took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, at 31.
Training came by way of Carleton College.
On the family side, Ross Lee Finney was born to Ross Lee Finney and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Ross Lee Finney under Pupils of Alban Berg, People from Wells, Minnesota and University of Michigan faculty.
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carleton College
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1937), Pulitzer Prize for Music (1937) and Rome Prize (1960)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Ross, according to the stars
Core essence
Ross is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ross is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Ross runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Ross needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ross wants to be loved
Ross wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ross even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ross creates
How Ross makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ross creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ross is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ross 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ross runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Ross's birth date. Working below.
Where Ross sits
Six lines
Ross’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 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Ross Lee Finney
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wells 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 Wells that night
Computed for 43.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wells at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 3.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 65% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wells, United States
The death is recorded at Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ross Lee Finney: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ross's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 2 unaspected planets · 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
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Ross Lee Finney's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Ross Lee Finney was born on December 23, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Ross Lee Finney's birth date, December 23, 1906, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ross’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ross Lee Finney's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Ross Lee Finney combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Ross’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aries 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Ross’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb
Ross’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° orb
Ross’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.6° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ross’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 9°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 9°34′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°45′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 24°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.5°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.2°
Ross’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Ross’s chart
Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°
More people like Ross
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Ross’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1906. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ross’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323394 (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 Ross Lee Finney at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ross Lee Finney.
Quick answers about Ross Lee Finney’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ross Lee Finney?
- Ross Lee Finney was a Capricorn: born December 23, 1906, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Ross Lee Finney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1906 birth.
- What was Ross Lee Finney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ross Lee Finney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ross Lee Finney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ross Lee Finney's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
