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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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.
Scatman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Scatman sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Scatman Crothers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
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
Scatman’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb
Scatman’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb
Scatman’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb
Scatman’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
Scatman’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°38′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Scatman absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 5°59′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Scatman looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 7°04′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Scatman attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 5°05′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Scatman is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°08′ (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. Scatman 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.
- 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°
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°).
Scatman’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Scatman is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Scatman’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.
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 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-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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Scatman Crothers, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Scatman’s cards
Every card is computed from May 23, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Scatman Crothers, 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
Scatman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q501996, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Scatman Crothers 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 Scatman Crothers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 23, 1910 birth date.
- What was Scatman Crothers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 23, 1910 birth date.
- 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.
