Steve Reich
Steve Reich (born October 3, 1936, New York City, United States), aged 89, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Steve sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Steve Reich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Steve’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb
Steve’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.6° orb
Steve’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 6.5° orb
Steve’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°22′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Steve turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°54′ (moves 0.34° 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. Steve is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 7°35′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Steve is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 11°58′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Steve is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra or Scorpio during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Steve that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Steve’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Steve is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Steve’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.
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 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.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Steve Reich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Steve’s cards
Every card is computed from October 3, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Steve Reich, 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
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262791, 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.
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. 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 Steve Reich.
Quick answers about Steve Reich’s chart
- How old is Steve Reich?
- Steve Reich is 89 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Steve Reich 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 is Steve Reich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 3, 1936 birth date.
- What is Steve Reich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 3, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
