Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (born April 26, 1914, Brooklyn, United States; died 1986), was an American author. Malamud is best remembered for A New Life, The Natural and The Magic Barrel. Malamud's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award and National Book Award.
Bernard Malamud’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Bernard Malamud’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bernard in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~201,070
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Bernard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
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What the chart says
Bernard, according to the stars
Core essence
Bernard 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 Bernard 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Bernard is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Bernard needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Bernard wants to be loved
Bernard wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Bernard is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Bernard creates
How Bernard makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bernard 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: Bernard is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Bernard is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Bernard does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Bernard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bernard sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Bernard Malamud's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Bernard Malamud was born on April 26, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Bernard Malamud's birth date, April 26, 1914, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Bernard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bernard Malamud's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bernard Malamud combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Bernard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bernard Malamud, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Taurus 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.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.0° orb
Bernard’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
Bernard’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb
Bernard’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.7° to 2.2° orb
Bernard’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.9° to 4.5° orb
Bernard’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars3.1° to 3.9° orb
Bernard’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.2° to 4.8° orb
Bernard’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.4° orb
Bernard’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.3° to 5.4° orb
Bernard’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrineUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
Bernard’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus5.4° to 6.3° orb
Bernard’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.7° to 7.8° orb
Bernard’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Bernard’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°35′ (moves 0.05° 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 Bernard absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAquarius 22°21′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Bernard is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 2°12′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Bernard is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°33′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Bernard needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°53′ (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 Bernard 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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.8°
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°).
Bernard’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Bernard is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Bernard’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 semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bernard Malamud, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Bernard
H. L. Gold was born on April 26, 1914 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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Bernard’s cards
Every card is computed from April 26, 1914, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bernard Malamud, 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
Bernard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q351547, 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 Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bernard Malamud 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 Bernard Malamud.
Quick answers about Bernard Malamud’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bernard Malamud?
- Bernard Malamud was a Taurus: born April 26, 1914, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
- What was Bernard Malamud's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1914 birth.
- What time was Bernard Malamud 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 Bernard Malamud's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 26, 1914 birth date.
- What was Bernard Malamud's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 26, 1914 birth date.
- Where was Bernard Malamud's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bernard Malamud's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
