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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin (born April 22, 1916, New York City, United States; died 1999), was an American violinist and conductor. Menuhin served as member of the House of Lords. Menuhin's honours include Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Yehudi Menuhin’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Yehudi Menuhin’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What Yehudi’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

7

Soul Urge · understanding

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on Y (7) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Yehudi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Yehudi apart

Robert Oppenheimer (1904) and Jack Nicholson (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Yehudi, according to the stars

Core essence

Yehudi is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Yehudi is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Yehudi wants to be loved

Yehudi wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Yehudi like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Yehudi creates

How Yehudi makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Yehudi creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Yehudi is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Yehudi is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Yehudi 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 Yehudi's birth date. Working below.

Where Yehudi sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Yehudi

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Yehudi

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Yehudi

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Yehudi

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Yehudi

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Yehudi

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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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: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

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, 71% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.

How unusual Yehudi's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Yehudi Menuhin at a glance

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Yehudi Menuhin's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 22, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Yehudi Menuhin was born on April 22, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Yehudi Menuhin's birth date, April 22, 1916, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Yehudi’s chart

Yehudi’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.9° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun in Taurus · 2°13′☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 2°40′☽2°Mercury in Taurus · 11°06′☿11°Venus in Gemini · 17°45′♀17°Mars in Leo · 15°40′♂15°Jupiter in Aries · 16°36′♃16°Saturn in Cancer · 11°08′♄11°Uranus in Aquarius · 19°17′♅19°Neptune in Cancer · 29°55′♆29°Pluto in Cancer · 1°30′♇1°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Yehudi’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.2° to 1.2° orb

    Yehudi’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.8° to 1.5° orb

    Yehudi’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars1.7° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.7° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 24°29′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 24°13′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 19°12′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.9°

Yehudi’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

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

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Yehudi’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°

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Yehudi’s cards

Computed from April 22, 1916. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Yehudi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q156814 (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 Film screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Yehudi Menuhin at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yehudi Menuhin.

Quick answers about Yehudi Menuhin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Yehudi Menuhin?
Yehudi Menuhin was a Taurus: born April 22, 1916, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Yehudi Menuhin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1916 birth.
What was Yehudi Menuhin's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Yehudi Menuhin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Yehudi Menuhin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Yehudi Menuhin's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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