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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Booth
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.
What Booth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Booth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Booth apart
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Booth sits
Six lines
Booth’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 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.
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 Booth Tarkington
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis that night
Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Indianapolis at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.1° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 65% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Booth's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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
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
stableUranussextilePluto0.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.8° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.2° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.1° to 4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 23°14′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 1°39′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°33′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.7°
Booth’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Booth’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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Born in Snake years
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- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Josh Radnor1974
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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
Computed from July 29, 1869. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Booth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q893138 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Booth Tarkington at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Booth Tarkington.
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.
- 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 was Booth Tarkington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Booth Tarkington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
