Emory Holloway
Emory Holloway (born March 16, 1885, Missouri, United States; died 1977), was an American biographer. Holloway's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Emory Holloway’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Emory
Emory Holloway’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Emory in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~29,762
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
Emory ranked 285th in 1885, the year of this birth, with 34 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Emory’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on E (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Emory’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Emory apart
Emory Holloway took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1927, at 42.
Wikipedia's editors put Emory Holloway under People from Marshall, Missouri, American male biographers and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners.
Mark Carney (1965) and Alexandra Daddario (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1927)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Emory, according to the stars
Core essence
Emory feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Emory is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Emory wants to be loved
Emory wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Emory, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Emory creates
How Emory makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Emory 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: Emory is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Emory is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Emory slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Emory's birth date. Working below.
Where Emory sits
Six lines
Emory’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Emory Holloway
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Missouri 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 Missouri that night
Computed for 38.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Missouri was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 79.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Missouri at all: they sit past the −51.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Emory's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Pisces · 2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Emory Holloway's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Emory Holloway was born on March 16, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Emory Holloway's birth date, March 16, 1885, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Emory’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emory Holloway's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Emory Holloway combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Emory’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.3° orb
Emory’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.1° to 2.1° orb
Emory’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrinePluto0.7° orb
Emory’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn0.8° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune1.5° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.2° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Emory’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 16°57′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 25°38′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°05′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Sun 0.7°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.7°
Emory’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Emory’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on March 16
- Mark Carney1965
- Alexandra Daddario1986
- Alexander McQueen1969
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Other Pisces Rooster charts
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Other Gilded Explorers
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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Emory’s cards
Computed from March 16, 1885. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emory’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1339066 (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 Emory Holloway at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emory Holloway.
Quick answers about Emory Holloway’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Emory Holloway?
- Emory Holloway was a Pisces: born March 16, 1885, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Emory Holloway's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1885 birth.
- What was Emory Holloway's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Emory Holloway's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Emory Holloway'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 was Emory Holloway's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
