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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
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
Of the names registered in 1941, Stephen came 41st among boys and 2,013th among girls, carried by 5,811 American boys and 18 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Stephen apart
Stephen Albert took the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1985, at 44.
The classrooms behind this chart: Eastman School of Music and The University of the Arts.
Cause of death is recorded as traffic collision; the grave is at New South Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Stephen Albert: Road incident deaths in Massachusetts, People from Truro, Massachusetts and Pupils of Darius Milhaud.
Ronald Reagan (1911) and Bob Marley (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Eastman School of Music, The University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (1995) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1985)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Cause of death
- traffic collision
- Buried at
- New South Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
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. Working below.
Where Stephen sits
Six lines
Stephen’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Stephen Albert
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 84.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 74% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Cape Cod, Barnstable County in 1992.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stephen Albert: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, 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.
What Aquarius means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Stephen Albert was born on February 6, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Stephen Albert's birth date, February 6, 1941, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Albert's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Albert combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Gemini 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
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
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 27°05′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°05′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 10°59′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 6°56′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Stephen
Other composers
- Barry Manilow1943
- John Harbison1938
- Howard Shore1946
- Giorgio Moroder1940
- Rod Stewart1945
- Charles Wuorinen1938
Born in United States
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- Michael Stuart BrownAmerican geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
- John C. MaloneAmerican billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist
- Terry GilliamAmerican born-British filmmaker, comedian, and actor (born 1940)
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Born in Snake years
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- Bryce YoungAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Adam Siao Him FaFrench figure skater
Also born on February 6
- Ronald Reagan1911
- Axl Rose1962
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Other Evergreen Architects
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Stephen’s cards
Computed from February 6, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q359640 (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 Stephen Albert at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Stephen Albert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stephen Albert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
