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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with H. L. Davis
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.
What H. L. Davis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
H. L. Davis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets H. L. Davis apart
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where H. L. Davis sits
Six lines
H. L. Davis’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 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.
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 H. L. Davis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nonpareil 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 Nonpareil that night
Computed for 43.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Nonpareil at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 16.4° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Nonpareil sits at 43.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nonpareil at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 78% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual H.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth 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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Gemini 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 1°12′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°15′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°59′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 7°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.3°
H. L. Davis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in H. L. Davis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
H. L. Davis’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1894. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
H. L. Davis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q765423 (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.
The same H. L. Davis at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by H. L. Davis.
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.
- 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 was H. L. Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was H. L. Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
