Emily Henry
Emily Henry (born May 17, 1991, Kalamazoo, United States), aged 35, is an American novelist. Henry is best known for Funny Story, Happy Place and Book Lovers.
Emily Henry’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Emily
Emily Henry’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Emily in the U.S.?
#34
US rank in 2025
~898,296
Americans share it since 1880
1999
its peak year
The SSA recorded 20,311 American girls and 34 boys named Emily in 1991: 10th among girls and 2,160th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Emily’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Emily’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1991, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Emily apart
The record Emily Henry is measured by: Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation and Book Lovers.
The schooling ran through Lakota East High School and Hope College.
Wikipedia files Emily Henry under Women romantic fiction writers, American romantic fiction novelists and Hope College alumni.
Jill Duggar shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation and Book Lovers
- Educated at
- Lakota East High School and Hope College
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Emily, according to the stars
Core essence
Emily 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 Emily 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, Emily is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Emily needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Emily wants to be loved
Emily 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. Emily gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Emily creates
How Emily 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. Emily 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: Emily is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Emily 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Emily 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 Emily's birth date. Working below.
Where Emily sits
Six lines
Emily’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Emily Henry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo that night
Computed for 42.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kalamazoo was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 83.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Kalamazoo sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Kalamazoo at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 0° below the horizon, Moon up and 20% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Emily's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Emily Henry's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 17, 1991, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Emily Henry was born on May 17, 1991, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Emily Henry's birth date, May 17, 1991, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Emily’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emily Henry's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Emily Henry combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Emily’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Cancer 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
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb
Emily’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.6° orb
Emily’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb
Emily’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune3.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.6° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.5° to 7.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto7.0° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Emily’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 23°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 21°32′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 12°31′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°55′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.9°
Emily’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Mars
Configurations in Emily’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn 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 quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Born the same day as Emily
Jill Duggar was born on May 17, 1991 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Kalamazoo sits at 42.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Emily’s cards
Computed from May 17, 1991. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emily’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110904998 (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.
The same Emily Henry at Wikipedia and emilyhenrybooks.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emily Henry.
Quick answers about Emily Henry’s chart
- How old is Emily Henry?
- Emily Henry is 35 years old, born May 17, 1991 in Kalamazoo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Emily Henry?
- Emily Henry is a Taurus: born May 17, 1991, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Emily Henry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1991 birth.
- What is Emily Henry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Emily Henry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Emily Henry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Emily Henry's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
