Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930, Manhattan, United States; died 2021), was an American composer and lyricist. Sondheim's honours include Tony Award for Best Musical, Grammy Trustees Award and National Medal of Arts.
Stephen Sondheim’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
Stephen Sondheim’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 1,257 American boys and 16 girls named Stephen in 1930: 138th among boys and 2,195th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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
The Tony Award for Best Original Score came in 1973, when Stephen Sondheim was 43.
Study took Stephen Sondheim to New York Military Academy and George School.
Stephen Sondheim was 24 when the work began in 1954.
Wikipedia files Stephen Sondheim under Beta Theta Pi, Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni and Crossword creators.
Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York Military Academy, George School and Ethical Culture Fieldston School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1985), Praemium Imperiale (2000) and Academy Award for Best Original Song (1991)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score
- Working from
- 1954
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Stephen is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Stephen needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stephen creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Stephen is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Stephen slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Sondheim
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 41% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
- Lived in
- New York City · Hollywood
Wikidata records New York City and Hollywood as Stephen Sondheim's home, against Manhattan as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Roxbury, Northwest Hills Planning Region in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stephen Sondheim: 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
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Venus
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Stephen Sondheim's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Stephen Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Stephen Sondheim's birth date, March 22, 1930, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Sondheim's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Sondheim combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Capricorn 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.4° to 1.6° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb
Stephen’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.4° orb
Stephen’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.5° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.3° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 11°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 15°04′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 27°34′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 27°08′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.9°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Venus · Saturn, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
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Other Gilded Visionarys
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Stephen’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153579 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Sondheim at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Stephen Sondheim’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stephen Sondheim?
- Stephen Sondheim was an Aries: born March 22, 1930, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Stephen Sondheim's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1930 birth.
- What was Stephen Sondheim's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stephen Sondheim's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stephen Sondheim's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stephen Sondheim's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
