Art Buchwald
Art Buchwald (born October 20, 1925, Mount Vernon, United States; died 2007), was a Journalist, humorist, United States Marine. Buchwald's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Horatio Alger Award and honorary doctorate of the University of South Carolina.
Art Buchwald’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Art
Art Buchwald’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Art in the U.S.?
#3382
US rank in 2025
~6,146
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1925, Art came 1,013th, carried by 46 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Art’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Art’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Art apart
Kamala Harris (1964) and Elfriede Jelinek (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Art, according to the stars
Core essence
Art makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Art is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Art wants to be loved
Art wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Art and watch them fall for you again.
How Art creates
How Art makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Art creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Art is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Art is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Art fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Art's birth date. Working below.
Where Art sits
Six lines
Art’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Art Buchwald
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mount Vernon was Scheat, in Pegasus, 76.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mount Vernon on any night.
The Moon, 13% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
How unusual Art's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mars
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Art Buchwald's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Art Buchwald was born on October 20, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Art Buchwald's birth date, October 20, 1925, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Art’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Art Buchwald's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Art Buchwald combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Art’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSaturntrinePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Art’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto0.2° to 0.8° orb
Art’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Art’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.5° to 4.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.3° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.6° to 16.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 3.7° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 4.8° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Art’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 26°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 13°42′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 18°12′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 21°53′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°13′ (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 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.8°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.9°
Art’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Art’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on October 20
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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
Art’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Art’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319342 (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 AnonymousUnknown author / Lehtikuva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Art Buchwald 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 Art Buchwald.
Quick answers about Art Buchwald’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Art Buchwald?
- Art Buchwald was a Libra: born October 20, 1925, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Art Buchwald's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1925 birth.
- What was Art Buchwald's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Art Buchwald's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Art Buchwald's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Art Buchwald's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
