Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle (born August 3, 1900, Dana, United States; died 1945), was an American war correspondent and writer. Pyle's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence, Purple Heart and Raymond Clapper Memorial Award.
Ernie Pyle’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ernie
Ernie Pyle’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ernie in the U.S.?
#5270
US rank in 2025
~17,234
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Ernie ranked 756th in 1900, the year of this birth, with 12 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ernie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ernie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ernie apart
Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ernie, according to the stars
Core essence
Ernie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ernie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Ernie feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ernie needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ernie wants to be loved
Ernie 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. Ernie gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ernie creates
How Ernie makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ernie creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ernie 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ernie is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ernie scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Ernie's birth date. Working below.
Where Ernie sits
Six lines
Ernie’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Ernie Pyle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dana 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 Dana that night
Computed for 39.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Dana was Vega, in Lyra, 83.2° up.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 39.8°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 Dana at all: they sit past the −50.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 54% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Ernie's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets · 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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Ernie Pyle's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Ernie Pyle was born on August 3, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Ernie Pyle's birth date, August 3, 1900, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ernie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ernie Pyle's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ernie Pyle combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Ernie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Scorpio 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.2° orb
Ernie’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.8° orb
Ernie’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.0° orb
Ernie’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Ernie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 19°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 7°44′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 1°55′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 25°40′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°19′ (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 square Neptune 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.7°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Ernie’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ernie’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
More people like Ernie
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Born in United States
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- Bruce CattonAmerican historian and journalist
- Clark GableAmerican actor
- E. B. WhiteAmerican author
- Roy Lee Harmonpoet, politician, founder of West Virginia's Poetry Society
- Pat O'BrienAmerican film actor
More charts like Ernie’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
- Hayden PanettiereAmerican actress and singer
- CoolioAmerican rapper
Born in Rat years
- John L. GauntAmerican photographer
- Daniel Walker HoweAmerican historian
- Joby WarrickAmerican journalist (born 1960)
Also born on August 3
- Tom Brady1977
- Martha Stewart1941
- Karlie Kloss1992
- Jourdan Dunn1990
- Mamie Gummer1983
- Chandler Kinney2000
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Malik BensonAmerican football player
- Dalton JohnsonAmerican football player
- Brandon ClevelandAmerican football player (born 2004)
Other Leo Rat charts
- Yves Saint LaurentFrench fashion designer
- Robert PlantEnglish musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin
- Marlon WayansAmerican actor, screenwriter, and film producer
- François PinaultFrench billionaire businessman and art collector
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Anthony SalimIndonesian businessman
- Stan KroenkeAmerican businessman
- Steve BisciottiAmerican football executive
- Enrique K. RazonFilipino billionaire
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Luke WilsonAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Forest WhitakerAmerican actor
- Rita WilsonAmerican actress, singer and producer
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Ernie’s cards
Computed from August 3, 1900. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ernie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q38415 (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.
Portrait by Milton J. Pike, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ernie Pyle at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ernie Pyle.
Quick answers about Ernie Pyle’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ernie Pyle?
- Ernie Pyle was a Leo: born August 3, 1900, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Ernie Pyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1900 birth.
- What was Ernie Pyle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ernie Pyle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ernie Pyle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ernie Pyle's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
