Forrest Wilson
Forrest Wilson (born January 20, 1883, Warren, United States; died 1942), was an American journalist. Wilson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Forrest Wilson’s zodiac sign was Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Forrest
How common is the name Forrest in the U.S.?
#374
US rank in 2025
~54,697
Americans share it since 1880
1994
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1883, Forrest came 333rd, carried by 25 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Forrest’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Forrest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Forrest apart
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Forrest, according to the stars
How Forrest wants to be loved
Forrest 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 Forrest and watch them fall for you again.
How Forrest creates
How Forrest makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Forrest builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Forrest is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Forrest 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Forrest does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Forrest's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Warren that night
Computed for 41.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Warren at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Warren on any night.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 95% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Forrest's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus · No Water planets
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
Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
Forrest Wilson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Horse
Water HorseBright, restless, warm.
Forrest Wilson was born on January 20, 1883, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Forrest Wilson's birth date, January 20, 1883, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Forrest’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Forrest Wilson's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
Forrest’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Forrest’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Forrest’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.7° orb
Forrest’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrinePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.8° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.1° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Forrest’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 22°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 23°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 10°26′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°29′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.4°
Forrest’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Forrest’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Jupiter, UranusAn 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.3°
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Forrest’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1883. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Forrest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5470533 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Forrest Wilson.
Quick answers about Forrest Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Forrest Wilson?
- Forrest Wilson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Forrest Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1883 birth.
- What was Forrest Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Forrest Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Forrest Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Forrest Wilson's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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