Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (born July 21, 1899, Oak Park, United States, 08:00; died 1961), was an American author and journalist. Hemingway is best remembered for A Farewell to Arms, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway's honours include National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Ernest Hemingway’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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Ernest Hemingway’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ernest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ernest, according to the stars
Core essence
Ernest feels the room before entering it. The core of Ernest 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 Ernest, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ernest is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Ernest needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Ernest wants to be loved
Ernest 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. Ernest gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ernest creates
How Ernest makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ernest 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: Ernest 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 1 is the pioneer. Ernest is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ernest leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ernest 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 Ernest's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ernest sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Ernest Hemingway's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Ernest Hemingway's birth date, July 21, 1899, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Ernest’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ernest Hemingway's timed chart: Mars in the 1st house, Saturn in the 4th house, Uranus in the 4th house, Neptune in the 10th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ernest Hemingway's timed chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ernest Hemingway combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Ernest’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 0.3° orb
Ernest’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.7° orb
Ernest’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareJupiterapplying · 2.6° orb
Ernest’s core identity grinds against their growth.
MarssquareSaturnseparating · 2.7° orb
Ernest’s drive grinds against their discipline.
MoonoppositionVenusapplying · 3.2° orb
Ernest’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 4.4° orb
Ernest’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 5.2° orb
Ernest’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 5.4° orb
Ernest’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SuntrineUranusapplying · 5.7° orb
Ernest’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
SaturnoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.9° orb
Ernest’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ernest’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°05′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Ernest building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°04′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ernest is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosVirgo 5°24′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Ernest is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°51′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Ernest is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°11′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Ernest is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Chiron square Ascendant 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros square Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Ascendant 2.2°
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 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°).
Ernest’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ernest is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Ernest’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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.- T-square onto Mars · Saturn, Neptune, MarsAn 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Ernest’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 10 | Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 3 | Saturn, Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 4 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Gemini, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 11 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | Neptune, Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 5 | Sun, Venus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 11 | Mercury | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ernest’s cards
Every card is computed from July 21, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ernest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23434, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
Portrait by Lloyd Arnold, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Ernest Hemingway’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ernest Hemingway?
- Ernest Hemingway was a Cancer: born July 21, 1899, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Ernest Hemingway's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 21, 1899 birth.
- What time was Ernest Hemingway born?
- 08:00 local time in Oak Park, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Ernest Hemingway's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 08:00 birth time in Oak Park, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Ernest Hemingway's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 21, 1899 birth date.
- What was Ernest Hemingway's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 21, 1899 birth time.
- Where was Ernest Hemingway's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ernest Hemingway's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
