Sebastian de Grazia
Sebastian de Grazia (born August 11, 1917, Chicago, United States; died 2000), was an American writer. Grazia's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Sebastian de Grazia’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sebastian
Sebastian de Grazia’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Sebastian in the U.S.?
#16
US rank in 2025
~218,463
Americans share it since 1881
2016
its peak year
In 1917, 122 American boys were registered Sebastian — 524th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sebastian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
Sebastian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Sebastian apart
Chris Hemsworth (1983) and Hulk Hogan (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Sebastian, according to the stars
Core essence
Sebastian is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sebastian 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, Sebastian processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sebastian needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Sebastian wants to be loved
Sebastian 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 Sebastian and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Sebastian creates
How Sebastian makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Sebastian creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Sebastian is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sebastian is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sebastian leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sebastian 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 Sebastian's birth date. Working below.
Where Sebastian sits
Six lines
Sebastian’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Sebastian de Grazia
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 27% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
How unusual Sebastian's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Sebastian de Grazia's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Sebastian de Grazia was born on August 11, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Sebastian de Grazia's birth date, August 11, 1917, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sebastian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sebastian de Grazia's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sebastian de Grazia combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Sebastian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Sebastian’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.6° orb
Sebastian’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Sebastian’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sebastian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°17′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 7°11′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 24°55′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 0°42′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres square Mars 2.5°
Sebastian’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Sebastian’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°
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Born in United States
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Also born on August 11
- Chris Hemsworth1983
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- DaRon Holmes IIAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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- Marvin Bagley IIIAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
Other Leo Snake charts
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Other Evergreen Scholars
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Sebastian’s cards
Computed from August 11, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sebastian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2263265 (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 Sebastian de Grazia at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sebastian de Grazia.
Quick answers about Sebastian de Grazia’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sebastian de Grazia?
- Sebastian de Grazia was a Leo: born August 11, 1917, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Sebastian de Grazia's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 11, 1917 birth.
- What was Sebastian de Grazia's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sebastian de Grazia's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sebastian de Grazia's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sebastian de Grazia's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
