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Stephen Albert

Stephen Albert (born February 6, 1941, New York City, United States; died 1992), was an American composer. Albert's honours include Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Stephen Albert’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Stephen Albert’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#383

US rank in 2025

~867,669

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

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

What the chart says

Stephen, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephen is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Stephen is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Stephen 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 Stephen needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Stephen creates

How Stephen 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. Stephen 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: Stephen 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Stephen is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Stephen has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Stephen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Stephen sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephen

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

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Stephen Albert's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Stephen Albert was born on February 6, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Stephen Albert's birth date, February 6, 1941, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Stephen Albert, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.6° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.7° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 5° orbSun in Aquarius · 17°32′17°Moon in Gemini · 12°09′12°Mercury in Pisces · 4°47′Venus in Capricorn · 29°45′29°Mars in Sagittarius · 22°17′22°Jupiter in Taurus · 8°01′Saturn in Taurus · 8°38′Uranus in Taurus · 22°11′22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°18′ · retrograde27°Pluto in Leo · 2°53′ · retrograde

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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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

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.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.6° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.1° orb

    Stephen’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto2.5° to 3.8° orb

    Stephen’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.6° to 3.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.5° orb

    Stephen’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb

    Stephen’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileMars4.6° to 4.9° orb

    Stephen’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb

    Stephen’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb

    Stephen’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.1° orb

    Stephen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb

    Stephen’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Stephen’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.

  • ChironCancer 27°05′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Stephen is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • CeresSagittarius 21°05′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Stephen is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosPisces 10°59′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Stephen is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaAries 6°56′ (moves 0.29° 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 Stephen feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • Black Moon LilithAries 26°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Stephen carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.7°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 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°).

Stephen’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. Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Stephen is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Stephen’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.

  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.9°

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

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Stephen’s cards

Every card is computed from February 6, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Stephen Albert, 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

Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q359640, 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.

The same Stephen Albert at Wikipedia 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stephen Albert.

Quick answers about Stephen Albert’s chart

What zodiac sign was Stephen Albert?
Stephen Albert was an Aquarius: born February 6, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
What was Stephen Albert's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1941 birth.
What time was Stephen Albert 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 Stephen Albert's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 6, 1941 birth date.
What was Stephen Albert's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 6, 1941 birth date.
Where was Stephen Albert's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Stephen Albert's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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