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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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
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Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Walter Scharf in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Walter Scharf, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Gemini 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.
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
Walter’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
Walter’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.8° orb
Walter’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.8° orb
Walter’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Pisces 1°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Walter absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 22°19′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Walter looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosScorpio 29°53′ (moves 0.25° 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. Walter is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°10′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Walter is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Walter is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 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°
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°).
Walter’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Walter is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Walter’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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Scharf, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Walter’s cards
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☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Walter Scharf, 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
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1231447, 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.
The same Walter Scharf 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Walter Scharf 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 Walter Scharf's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 1, 1910 birth date.
- What was Walter Scharf's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 1, 1910 birth date.
- 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.
