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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Virgil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Virgil sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Virgil Thomson was born on November 25, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Virgil’s chart

Virgil’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Virgil Thomson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Virgil’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

    Virgil’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb

    Virgil’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.3° orb

    Virgil’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.2° to 7.7° orb

    Virgil’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.4° orb

    Virgil’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Virgil carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

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

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Virgil is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn or Aquarius during this date

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Virgil is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Virgil feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Virgil carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Virgil’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. 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

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Virgil is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Virgil’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Virgil Thomson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Virgil

Jessie Royce Landis was born on November 25, 1896 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. 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

Every card is computed from November 25, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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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

No birth time is on public record for Virgil Thomson, 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

Virgil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q544485, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
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 time was Virgil Thomson 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 was Virgil Thomson's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 25, 1896 birth date.
What was Virgil Thomson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 25, 1896 birth date.
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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