Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf (born August 1, 1910, New York City, United States; died 2003), was an American composer and arranger. Scharf's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Walter Scharf’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Walter
Walter Scharf’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1910, 2,596 American boys and 11 girls were registered Walter — 13th among boys and 1,518th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 Walter apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song came in 1973, when Walter Scharf was 63.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Jubilee Records artists, American television composers and Jewish American television composers.
Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1973)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song Score
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Walter is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Walter processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Walter needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Walter gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Walter creates
How Walter 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. Walter 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: Walter is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Walter is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Walter fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Walter's birth date. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 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 Walter Scharf
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: Vega of Lyra, within 10.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 13% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Brentwood, Contra Costa County in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Walter Scharf: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Leo
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Walter Scharf's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Walter Scharf was born on August 1, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Walter Scharf's birth date, August 1, 1910, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Scharf's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Walter Scharf combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Gemini 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
stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.4° orb
Walter’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.2° to 1.3° orb
Walter’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.7° to 1.5° orb
Walter’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 6.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 5.6° to 19.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 1°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°19′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 29°53′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°10′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.5°
- Eros square Mars 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.6°
Walter’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Walter’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Walter
Other composers
- Howard Hanson1896
- Dizzy Gillespie1917
- Virgil Thomson1896
- Robert Ward1917
- Quincy Porter1897
- Milton Babbitt1916
Born in United States
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- Elizabeth BishopAmerican poet
- Samuel BarberAmerican composer
- Ronald ReaganPresident of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor
- Margaret ClappAmerican educator
- Audrey WurdemannAmerican poet
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on August 1
- Georges Charpak1924
- Yves Saint Laurent1936
- Jason Momoa1979
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Arthur WalworthAmerican biographer
- Carl Van DorenAmerican biographer
- William SaroyanArmenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
Other Leo Dog charts
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- Cam GigandetAmerican actor
- Conor KennedyAmerican activist, eldest child of RFK Jr and Mary Richardson (1994)
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Tia MowryAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Sutton StrackeAmerican socialite and television personality
- Annamarie TendlerAmerican artist and author
- Geoffrey ZakarianArmenian-American celebrity chef
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Yasuhiro Fukushimabusinessman from Japan
- Lee Ho-jinSouth Korean businessperson
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Walter’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1231447 (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.
The same Walter Scharf 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 Walter Scharf.
Quick answers about Walter Scharf’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Walter Scharf?
- Walter Scharf was a Leo: born August 1, 1910, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Walter Scharf's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1910 birth.
- What was Walter Scharf's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Walter Scharf's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Walter Scharf's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Walter Scharf's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
