Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948, New York City, United States), aged 78, is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. Schwartz is best known for The Prince of Egypt. Schwartz's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Stephen Schwartz’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
Stephen Schwartz’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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
Stephen ranked 20th among boys and 1,703rd among girls in 1948, the year of this birth, with 17,061 American boys and 31 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Stephen apart
Gabriel García Márquez (1927) and Valentina Tereshkova (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Stephen is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen 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 Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Stephen creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Stephen is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Stephen fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Schwartz
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.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 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 waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Earth planets · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Stephen Schwartz's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 6, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Stephen Schwartz was born on March 6, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Stephen Schwartz's birth date, March 6, 1948, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Schwartz's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Schwartz combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.1° to 0.3° orb
Stephen’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionMars0.2° to 0.8° orb
Stephen’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileUranus0.5° to 0.8° orb
Stephen’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°44′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°56′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 25°18′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 22°18′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.8°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
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Also born on March 6
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Stephen’s cards
Computed from March 6, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q542484 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Schwartz at Wikipedia, stephenschwartz.com, 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 Stephen Schwartz.
Quick answers about Stephen Schwartz’s chart
- How old is Stephen Schwartz?
- Stephen Schwartz is 78 years old, born March 6, 1948 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stephen Schwartz?
- Stephen Schwartz is a Pisces: born March 6, 1948, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Stephen Schwartz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 6, 1948 birth.
- What is Stephen Schwartz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stephen Schwartz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stephen Schwartz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephen Schwartz's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
