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Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (born August 20, 1901, Modica, Italy; died 1968), was an Italian writer. Quasimodo is best remembered for Il falso e il vero verde, Ed è subito sera and Poesie. Quasimodo's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature and Taormina prize.

Salvatore Quasimodo’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Salvatore Quasimodo’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Salvatore in the U.S.?

#945

US rank in 2025

~57,445

Americans share it since 1888

1927

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1901, Salvatore came 369th, carried by 26 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Salvatore’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Salvatore’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Salvatore apart

Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Salvatore, according to the stars

Core essence

Salvatore is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Salvatore is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Salvatore feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Salvatore needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Salvatore wants to be loved

Salvatore wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Salvatore and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Salvatore creates

How Salvatore makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Salvatore creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Salvatore is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Salvatore 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Salvatore fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Salvatore's birth date. Working below.

Where Salvatore sits

Six lines

Salvatore’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Salvatore

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Salvatore

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Salvatore

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Salvatore

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Salvatore

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Salvatore

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Salvatore Quasimodo

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Modica on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Salvatore’s birth-night reference starSheliakblue · LyraSheliak, in Lyra. A blue star, 86.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sheliak →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 17.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Modica that night

Computed for 36.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Sheliak stood nearest the zenith over Modica at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.2° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

From 36.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Modica at all: they sit past the −53.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 36% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 24° down.

How unusual Salvatore's chart is

Chart pattern score

13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · 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.

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The quick version

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Salvatore Quasimodo's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Ox

Slow, steady, never quits.

Salvatore Quasimodo was born on August 20, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Salvatore Quasimodo's birth date, August 20, 1901, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Salvatore’s chart

Salvatore’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.5° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.7° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.2° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Leo · 26°42′☉26°Moon in Scorpio · 6°26′☽6°Mercury in Leo · 19°03′☿19°Venus in Virgo · 26°18′♀26°Mars in Libra · 22°42′♂22°Jupiter in Capricorn · 3°24′ · retrograde♃℞3°Saturn in Capricorn · 10°17′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Sagittarius · 12°53′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Cancer · 0°56′♆0°Pluto in Gemini · 18°32′♇18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Salvatore’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb

    Salvatore’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.0° to 4.3° orb

    Salvatore’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileMars3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.7° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Salvatore’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 29°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 10°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 5°30′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 1°32′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Neptune 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.1°
  • Chiron trine Sun 3.0°

Salvatore’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Salvatore’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 semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°

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Salvatore’s cards

Computed from August 20, 1901. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Salvatore’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83038 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Salvatore Quasimodo at Wikipedia, salvatorequasimodo.it, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Salvatore Quasimodo’s chart

What zodiac sign was Salvatore Quasimodo?
Salvatore Quasimodo was a Leo: born August 20, 1901, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Salvatore Quasimodo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1901 birth.
What was Salvatore Quasimodo's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Salvatore Quasimodo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Salvatore Quasimodo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Salvatore Quasimodo's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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