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 time was Forrest Wilson born?

No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.

What was Forrest Wilson's Life Path number?

Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1883 birth date.

What was Forrest Wilson's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1883 birth date.

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.

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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Forrest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Forrest Wilson

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

Forrest’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 36.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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

Bright, restless, warm.

Forrest Wilson was born on January 20, 1883, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Forrest Wilson's birth date, January 20, 1883, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

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

No documented birth time exists for Forrest Wilson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

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
Forrest’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.8° to 2.2° orb
Forrest’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.3° to 3.4° orb
Forrest’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb
Forrest’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.8° orb
Forrest’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.2° orb
Forrest’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb
Forrest’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
Forrest’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.1° to 5.9° orb
Forrest’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

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

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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 22°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Forrest building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 23°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Forrest is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 10°26′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Forrest is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°29′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Forrest carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Forrest that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

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°

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°).

Forrest’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

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

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Forrest is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Forrest’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
Venus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
Venus quincunx Saturn 2.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Forrest Wilson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Forrest’s cards

Every card is computed from January 20, 1883, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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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

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Forrest Wilson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Forrest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5470533, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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.

The same Forrest Wilson at Wikipedia.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
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 time was Forrest Wilson born?: No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was Forrest Wilson's Life Path number?: Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1883 birth date.
What was Forrest Wilson's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1883 birth date.
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.