Scatman Crothers
Scatman Crothers (born May 23, 1910, Terre Haute, United States; died 1986), was an American entertainer. Crothers's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Scatman Crothers’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Scatman
Scatman Crothers’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Scatman’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (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
Scatman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 Scatman apart
Scatman Crothers took the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1980, at 70.
Training came by way of Alabama State University.
The working life starts in 1932, at 22.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Scatman Crothers: Recorded In Hollywood artists, Scat singers and Hanna-Barbera people.
John Bardeen (1908) and Rubens Barrichello (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Alabama State University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (1980) and Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1987)
- Working from
- 1932
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
What the chart says
Scatman, according to the stars
Core essence
Scatman is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Scatman needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Scatman wants to be loved
Scatman 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 Scatman creates
How Scatman makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Scatman creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Scatman is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Scatman 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Scatman does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Scatman's birth date. Working below.
Where Scatman sits
Six lines
Scatman’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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Scatman Crothers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Terre Haute 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 Terre Haute that night
Computed for 39.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Terre Haute at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Terre Haute on any night.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Terre Haute, United States
The death is recorded at Van Nuys, Los Angeles in 1986.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Scatman Crothers: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Scatman's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 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 →Scatman Crothers at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Scatman Crothers's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 23, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Scatman Crothers was born on May 23, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Scatman Crothers's birth date, May 23, 1910, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Scatman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Scatman Crothers' date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Scatman Crothers combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Scatman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
Scatman’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Scatman’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.2° to 3.7° orb
Scatman’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.1° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 2.4° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Scatman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°38′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 5°59′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 7°04′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 5°05′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron square Sun 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Eros opposition Mercury 2.4°
Scatman’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Scatman’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Scatman
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- Burl Ives1909
- Hume Cronyn1911
- Don Bradman1908
- Perry Como1912
- Elia Kazan1909
Born in United States
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- Edmund StevensAmerican journalist
- Eudora WeltyAmerican short story writer, novelist and photographer
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More charts like Scatman’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Rubens BarrichelloBrazilian racing driver
- CafuBrazilian association football player
- Paula AbdulAmerican singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
Born in Dog years
- Charlie CoxBritish actor
- Zoey DeutchAmerican actress
- MacKenzie ScottAmerican philanthropist and novelist
Also born on May 23
- John Bardeen1908
- Ryan Coogler1986
- James Charles1999
- Steve Lacy1998
- Mohamed Ramadan1988
- Lena Meyer-Landrut1991
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
- Dick CheneyVice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
Other Gemini Dog charts
- Kasparas JakučionisLithuanian basketball player (born 2006)
- Jacob BixenmanAmerican model, photographer and filmmaker
- Taylor Frankie PaulAmerican social media personality
- André HoffmannSwiss billionaire businessman born in 1958
Other Steadfast Healers
- Chace CrawfordAmerican actor
- Billy CrudupAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Drea de MatteoAmerican actress (born 1972)
- Simon DoonanBritish businessman
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Vanessa BryantMexican-American philanthropist
- Stephen BaldwinAmerican actor and political activist
- Tyson BeckfordAmerican model and actor
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Scatman’s cards
Computed from May 23, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Scatman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q501996 (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 Associated Students, University of California, Los Angeles, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Scatman Crothers 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 Scatman Crothers.
Quick answers about Scatman Crothers’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Scatman Crothers?
- Scatman Crothers was a Gemini: born May 23, 1910, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Scatman Crothers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1910 birth.
- What was Scatman Crothers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Scatman Crothers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Scatman Crothers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Scatman Crothers's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
