E. B. White
E. B. White (born July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, United States; died 1985), was an American author. White is best remembered for Subtreasury of American Humor, Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do and Stuart Little. White's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards and Hans Christian Andersen Award.
E. B. White’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with E. B. White
E. B. White’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What E. B. White’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 E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
E. B. White’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets E. B. White apart
Giorgio Armani (1934) and Jafar Panahi (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
E. B. White, according to the stars
Core essence
E. B. White feels the room before entering it. The core of E. B. White is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for E. B. White, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How E. B. White wants to be loved
E. B. White wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. E. B. White gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How E. B. White creates
How E. B. White makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. E. B. White creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: E. B. White is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. E. B. White 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means E. B. White channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from E. B. White's birth date. Working below.
Where E. B. White sits
Six lines
E. B. White’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 E. B. White
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.
Overhead at Mount Vernon at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 15.9° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 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.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 16% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual E.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · A leaning bowl · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
E. B. White's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 11, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
E. B. White was born on July 11, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
E. B. White's birth date, July 11, 1899, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in E. B. White’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in E. B. White's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- E. B. White combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
E. B. White’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Leo or Virgo 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
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
E. B. White’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto1.0° to 1.6° orb
E. B. White’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.7° to 3.1° orb
E. B. White’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.1° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 6.3° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
E. B. White’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 0°11′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 26°44′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°39′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.5°
E. B. White’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in E. B. White’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Saturn, 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
More people like E. B. White
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Born in United States
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More charts like E. B. White’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jude BellinghamEnglish footballer
- Carlos SantanaAmerican guitarist
- Larry DavidAmerican comedian, writer and actor
Born in Pig years
- Alexander SørlothNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
- Cherif NdiayeSenegalese footballer (born 1996)
- Joshua KimmichGerman association football player (born 1995)
Also born on July 11
- Giorgio Armani1934
- Jafar Panahi1960
- Lil' Kim1974
- Lisa Rinna1963
- Joan Smalls1988
- Justin Chambers1970
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Zach KingAmerican filmmaker, voice actor and Internet personality
- Daniel EkSwedish businessman
- David GeffenAmerican businessman
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Octavia E. ButlerAmerican science fiction writer
- Ronald ShusettAmerican screenwriter
- Ginger RogersAmerican actress and dancer
- Don HenleyAmerican rock musician
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Ronald George Wreyford NorrishBritish chemist
- George MinotAmerican physician
- J. Michael KosterlitzBritish-American physicist
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Gerd FaltingsGerman mathematician
- John MilnorAmerican mathematician
- Heisuke HironakaJapanese mathematician
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E. B. White’s cards
Computed from July 11, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
E. B. White’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q361617 (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 Cornell University senior photograph. Uploaded by w:user:cornell2010., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same E. B. White 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 E. B. White.
Quick answers about E. B. White’s chart
- What zodiac sign was E. B. White?
- E. B. White was a Cancer: born July 11, 1899, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was E. B. White's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 11, 1899 birth.
- What was E. B. White's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was E. B. White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was E. B. White's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was E. B. White's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
