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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (born November 25, 1896, Kansas City, United States; died 1989), was an American composer and critic. Thomson is best remembered for Lord Byron. Thomson's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Virgil Thomson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

Your match with Virgil

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Virgil Thomson’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Virgil in the U.S.?

#1417

US rank in 2025

~73,453

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

The SSA recorded 138 American boys and 12 girls named Virgil in 1896: 126th among boys and 997th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Virgil’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on V (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Virgil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet

The record

What sets Virgil apart

The record Virgil Thomson is measured by: Lord Byron.

Virgil Thomson was taught at Harvard University.

The record gives disease as the cause, and Rehoboth Cemetery as the resting place.

Wikipedia files Virgil Thomson under LGBTQ film score composers, American music critics and Centaur Records artists.

Jessie Royce Landis shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Lord Byron
Educated at
Harvard University
Instruments
organ
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Music (1949), National Medal of Arts (1988) and National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (1981)
Cause of death
disease
Buried at
Rehoboth Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
27

What the chart says

Virgil, according to the stars

Core essence

Virgil is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Virgil is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Virgil wants to be loved

Virgil wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Virgil you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Virgil creates

How Virgil makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Virgil creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Virgil is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Virgil is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Virgil scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Virgil's birth date. Working below.

Where Virgil sits

Six lines

Virgil’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Virgil

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Virgil

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Virgil

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Virgil

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Virgil

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Virgil

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Virgil Thomson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Virgil’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 86° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 45.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kansas City that night

Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Kansas City at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Kansas City sits at 39.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 71% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Kansas City, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1989.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Virgil Thomson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Virgil's chart is

Chart pattern score

19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Virgil Thomson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 25, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Virgil Thomson was born on November 25, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Virgil Thomson's birth date, November 25, 1896, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Virgil’s chart

Virgil’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.7° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.1° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.8° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 6.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 4°01′☉4°Moon in Leo · 4°59′☽4°Mercury in Sagittarius · 2°20′☿2°Venus in Capricorn · 9°15′♀9°Mars in Gemini · 25°29′ · retrograde♂℞25°Jupiter in Virgo · 8°51′♃8°Saturn in Scorpio · 23°11′♄23°Uranus in Scorpio · 25°21′♅25°Neptune in Gemini · 19°18′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Gemini · 12°54′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 7.0° orb

    Virgil’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Virgil’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Virgil’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.2° to 7.7° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.4° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.2° to 16.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Virgil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 6°60′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 23°06′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn or Aquarius during this date

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 26°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.8°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.3°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.3°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.4°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.9°

Virgil’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Virgil’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°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 2.3°

Born the same day as Virgil

Jessie Royce Landis was born on November 25, 1896 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Kansas City, at 39.0°N, nothing below −51.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works

Virgil’s cards

Computed from November 25, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Virgil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q544485 (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 Carl Van Vechten / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Virgil Thomson at Wikipedia, 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 Virgil Thomson.

Quick answers about Virgil Thomson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Virgil Thomson?
Virgil Thomson was a Sagittarius: born November 25, 1896, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Virgil Thomson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 25, 1896 birth.
What was Virgil Thomson's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Virgil Thomson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Virgil Thomson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Virgil Thomson's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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