Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington (born July 29, 1869, Indianapolis, United States; died 1946), was an American novelist. Tarkington served as member of the Indiana House of Representatives. Tarkington's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Booth Tarkington’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Booth Tarkington’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Booth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Booth, according to the stars
Core essence
Booth is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Booth 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, Booth runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Booth needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Booth wants to be loved
Booth wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Booth openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Booth creates
How Booth makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Booth creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Booth is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Booth is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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. Booth fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Booth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Booth sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Booth Tarkington's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1869, 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.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeSays less than it knows.
Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Booth Tarkington's birth date, July 29, 1869, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Booth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Booth Tarkington's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Booth Tarkington combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Booth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Booth Tarkington, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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.
stableSunsextileMars0.1° to 0.4° orb
Booth’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Booth’s growth and depths act as one.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° orb
Booth’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
Booth’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussextilePluto0.9° orb
Booth’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.8° to 3.7° orb
Booth’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.6° to 4.4° orb
Booth’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.2° to 5.0° orb
Booth’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
Booth’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.1° to 4.7° orb
Booth’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Booth’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 ℞Aries 3°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Booth may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 23°14′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Booth is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosVirgo 1°39′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Booth is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°33′ (moves 0.27° 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 Booth needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Booth is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.7°
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°).
Booth’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Booth 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 Booth’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Booth Tarkington, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Booth’s cards
Every card is computed from July 29, 1869, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Booth Tarkington, 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
Booth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q893138, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Booth Tarkington at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Booth Tarkington’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Booth Tarkington?
- Booth Tarkington was a Leo: born July 29, 1869, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Booth Tarkington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1869 birth.
- What time was Booth Tarkington 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 Booth Tarkington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1869 birth date.
- What was Booth Tarkington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1869 birth date.
- Where was Booth Tarkington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Booth Tarkington's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
