H. L. Davis
H. L. Davis (born October 18, 1894, Nonpareil, United States; died 1960), was an American novelist and poet. Davis is best remembered for Honey in the Horn. Davis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and Guggenheim Fellowship.
H. L. Davis’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Horse, with 
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H. L. Davis’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
H. L. Davis’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
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
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What the chart says
H. L. Davis, according to the stars
Core essence
H. L. Davis makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of H. L. Davis 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, H. L. Davis processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What H. L. Davis needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How H. L. Davis wants to be loved
H. L. Davis wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. H. L. Davis gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How H. L. Davis creates
How H. L. Davis makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. H. L. Davis creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: H. L. Davis 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. H. L. Davis 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means H. L. Davis gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from H. L. Davis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
H. L. Davis's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1894, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseOpen road, open heart.
H. L. Davis was born on October 18, 1894, which falls in a Wood 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
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
H. L. Davis's birth date, October 18, 1894, 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 H. L. Davis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in H. L. Davis' date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- H. L. Davis combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
H. L. Davis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for H. L. Davis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Gemini 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.
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.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.2° to 1.5° orb
H. L. Davis’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.3° to 0.7° orb
H. L. Davis’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb
H. L. Davis’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunoppositionMars2.1° to 3.4° orb
H. L. Davis’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableVenustrinePluto2.5° to 3.8° orb
H. L. Davis’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.0° orb
H. L. Davis’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
H. L. Davis’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 2.3° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 4.1° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
H. L. Davis’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.
⚷ ChironLibra 1°12′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. H. L. Davis is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°15′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
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. H. L. Davis is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°59′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has H. L. Davis attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 7°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. H. L. Davis is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has H. L. Davis at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.3°
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°).
H. L. Davis’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: H. L. Davis is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 H. L. Davis’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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for H. L. Davis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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H. L. Davis’s cards
Every card is computed from October 18, 1894, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for H. L. Davis, 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
H. L. Davis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q765423, 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 H. L. Davis 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.
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Quick answers about H. L. Davis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was H. L. Davis?
- H. L. Davis was a Libra: born October 18, 1894, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse.
- What was H. L. Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1894 birth.
- What time was H. L. Davis 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 H. L. Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 18, 1894 birth date.
- What was H. L. Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 18, 1894 birth date.
- Where was H. L. Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was H. L. Davis's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
