Steve Reich
Steve Reich (born October 3, 1936, New York City, United States), aged 90, is an American composer (born 1936). Reich is best known for Eight Lines, Double Sextet and Daniel Variations. Reich's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Praemium Imperiale and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Steve Reich’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Steve
Steve Reich’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Steve in the U.S.?
#1617
US rank in 2025
~242,131
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
The SSA recorded 741 American boys and 6 girls named Steve in 1936: 178th among boys and 4,118th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steve’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (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
Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The record
What sets Steve apart
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) and Gwen Stefani (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Steve, according to the stars
Core essence
Steve makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Steve is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Steve is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Steve needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Steve wants to be loved
Steve wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Steve even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Steve creates
How Steve makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Steve creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Steve 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Steve 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Steve channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Steve's birth date. Working below.
Where Steve sits
Six lines
Steve’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 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 Steve Reich
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: Deneb of Cygnus, within 14.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
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.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 85% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Steve's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Steve Reich at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Steve Reich's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 3, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Steve Reich was born on October 3, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Steve Reich's birth date, October 3, 1936, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Steve’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Steve Reich's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Steve Reich combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Steve’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Taurus 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
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Steve’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb
Steve’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Steve’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.8° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 4.3° to 19.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 6.5° to 22.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°22′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°54′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°35′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 11°58′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra or Scorpio during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres square Mars 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.7°
Steve’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Steve’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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 quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.6°
More people like Steve
Other composers
- Quincy Jones1933
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich1939
- Richard Wernick1934
- Edward Kleban1939
- Bernard Rands1934
- Hugh Masekela1939
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 3
- Zlatan Ibrahimović1981
- Gwen Stefani1969
- Lena Headey1973
- Fred1983
- Noah Schnapp2004
- ASAP Rocky1988
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Leonardo BalerdiArgentine footballer (born 1999)
- Brian RodríguezFUruguayan footballer
- Federico ViñasUruguayan footballer
Other Libra Rat charts
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- Gilberto MoraMexican footballer (born 2008)
- Jamel DeanAmerican football cornerback
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Steve’s cards
Computed from October 3, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262791 (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 Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Steve Reich at Wikipedia, stevereich.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Reich.
Quick answers about Steve Reich’s chart
- How old is Steve Reich?
- Steve Reich is 90 years old, born October 3, 1936 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Steve Reich?
- Steve Reich is a Libra: born October 3, 1936, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Steve Reich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 3, 1936 birth.
- What is Steve Reich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Steve Reich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Steve Reich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Steve Reich's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
