Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker (born September 27, 1924, Springfield, United States; died 1974), was an American cultural anthropologist. Becker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Ernest Becker’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ernest
Ernest Becker’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ernest in the U.S.?
#1040
US rank in 2025
~304,354
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Ernest ranked 37th among boys and 1,286th among girls in 1924, the year of this birth, with 5,683 American boys and 39 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ernest’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on E (5) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ernest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Ernest apart
Ernest Becker took the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1974, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: Syracuse University.
Cause of death is recorded as colorectal cancer.
Wikipedia's editors put Ernest Becker under American cultural anthropologists, Deaths from cancer in British Columbia and Philosophers of pessimism.
Avril Lavigne (1984) and Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Syracuse University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1974)
- Cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Ernest, according to the stars
Core essence
Ernest makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ernest is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Ernest is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Ernest needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Ernest wants to be loved
Ernest 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 Ernest openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Ernest creates
How Ernest makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ernest creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Ernest is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ernest is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ernest goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Ernest's birth date. Working below.
Where Ernest sits
Six lines
Ernest’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Ernest Becker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Springfield 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 Springfield that night
Computed for 42.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Springfield was Deneb, in Cygnus, 87.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.1°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 Springfield at all: they sit past the −47.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Springfield, United States
The death is recorded at Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District in 1974.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ernest Becker: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ernest's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Ernest Becker's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 27, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Ernest Becker was born on September 27, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Ernest Becker's birth date, September 27, 1924, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ernest’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ernest Becker's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of about 3°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Ernest Becker combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Ernest’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° 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
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 7.1° orb
Ernest’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
Ernest’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 3.1° orb
Ernest’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars5.9° to 6.9° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ernest’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 23°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 9°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 11°17′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 20°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.3°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
Ernest’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ernest’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Uranus, JupiterAn 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 semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.4°
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Ernest’s cards
Computed from September 27, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ernest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q938094 (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.
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The same Ernest Becker at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Ernest Becker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ernest Becker?
- Ernest Becker was a Libra: born September 27, 1924, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Ernest Becker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 27, 1924 birth.
- What was Ernest Becker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ernest Becker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ernest Becker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ernest Becker's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
