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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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 1880

1927

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Salvatore’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Salvatore sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. 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 Salvatore’s chart

Salvatore’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Salvatore Quasimodo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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

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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.

  • 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

    Salvatore’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb

    Salvatore’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.9° to 4.5° orb

    Salvatore’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb

    Salvatore’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.7° orb

    Salvatore’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.9° orb

    Salvatore’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Salvatore building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

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

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Salvatore is read as someone who shows care by providing.

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

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Salvatore is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Salvatore feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Salvatore is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Salvatore’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. 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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Salvatore is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Salvatore Quasimodo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Salvatore’s cards

Every card is computed from August 20, 1901, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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The Gilded Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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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

No birth time is on public record for Salvatore Quasimodo, 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

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

The same Salvatore Quasimodo at Wikipedia, salvatorequasimodo.it, 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox.
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 time was Salvatore Quasimodo 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 Salvatore Quasimodo's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 20, 1901 birth date.
What was Salvatore Quasimodo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 20, 1901 birth date.
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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