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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Goat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Emily’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Emily Henry, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Cancer 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.
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
Emily’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
Emily’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.6° orb
Emily’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.5° to 6.6° orb
Emily’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars5.7° to 6.3° orb
Emily’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.4° orb
Emily’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.5° to 7.6° orb
Emily’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto7.0° to 8.0° orb
Emily’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 23°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Emily is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 21°32′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Emily is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 12°31′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Emily attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°55′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Emily is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Emily is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.9°
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°).
Emily’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Emily 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 Emily’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.
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 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.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Emily Henry, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Emily
Jill Duggar was born on May 17, 1991 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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Emily’s cards
Every card is computed from May 17, 1991, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Emily Henry, 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
Emily’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110904998, 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.
The same Emily Henry at Wikipedia and emilyhenrybooks.com.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat.
- 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 time was Emily Henry 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 is Emily Henry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 17, 1991 birth date.
- What is Emily Henry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 17, 1991 birth date.
- 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.
