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Fayard Nicholas

Fayard Nicholas (born October 20, 1914, Mobile, United States; died 2006), was a Choreographer, dancer, actor. Nicholas's honours include Tony Award for Best Choreography, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.

Fayard Nicholas’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Fayard Nicholas’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What Fayard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Fayard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Fayard apart

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame came in 1978, when Fayard Nicholas was 64.

Fayard Nicholas was 21 when the work began in 1935.

The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actors from Mobile, Alabama, Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery and African-American Bahá'ís.

Kamala Harris (1964) and Elfriede Jelinek (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Instruments
voice
Awards
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1978), Tony Award for Best Choreography (1989) and Kennedy Center Honors (1991)
Working from
1935
Cause of death
pneumonia
Buried at
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
14

What the chart says

Fayard, according to the stars

Core essence

Fayard makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Fayard 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, Fayard 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 Fayard 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 Fayard wants to be loved

Fayard wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Fayard and watch them fall for you again.

How Fayard creates

How Fayard 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. Fayard 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: Fayard is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Fayard is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Fayard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Fayard's birth date. Working below.

Where Fayard sits

Six lines

Fayard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Fayard

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fayard

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Fayard

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fayard

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Fayard

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fayard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Fayard Nicholas

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mobile on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Fayard’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 20.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Mobile that night

Computed for 30.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Mobile at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Mobile sits at 30.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Mobile, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2006.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Fayard Nicholas: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Fayard's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Fayard Nicholas at a glance

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Fayard Nicholas's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Fayard Nicholas was born on October 20, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Fayard Nicholas's birth date, October 20, 1914, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Fayard’s chart

Fayard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 25° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.9° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.9° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5° orbSun in Libra · 26°30′☉26°Moon in Scorpio · 17°36′☽17°Mercury in Scorpio · 20°29′☿20°Venus in Sagittarius · 7°02′♀7°Mars in Scorpio · 14°38′♂14°Jupiter in Aquarius · 12°40′♃12°Saturn in Cancer · 2°19′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Aquarius · 7°41′♅7°Neptune in Leo · 0°24′♆0°Pluto in Cancer · 2°10′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.1° orb

    Fayard’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.4° to 0.9° orb

    Fayard’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter1.6° to 2.3° orb

    Fayard’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.0° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune6.4° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Fayard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 17°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 23°10′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 28°40′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Sun 2.2°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.7°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.8°

Fayard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Fayard’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.

  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

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Fayard’s cards

Computed from October 20, 1914. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Fayard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q531888 (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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Fayard Nicholas at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Fayard Nicholas.

Quick answers about Fayard Nicholas’s chart

What zodiac sign was Fayard Nicholas?
Fayard Nicholas was a Libra: born October 20, 1914, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Fayard Nicholas's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1914 birth.
What was Fayard Nicholas's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Fayard Nicholas's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Fayard Nicholas's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Fayard Nicholas's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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