Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle (born February 21, 1911, Kansas City, United States; died 1974), was an American journalist. Boyle's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.
Hal Boyle’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Hal
Hal Boyle’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Hal in the U.S.?
#3151
US rank in 2025
~16,796
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
In 1911, 43 American boys were registered Hal — 448th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hal’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Hal apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence came in 1945, when Hal Boyle was 34.
The schooling ran through University of Missouri.
Hal Boyle lies at Calvary Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Kansas City, Missouri, University of Missouri alumni and Associated Press reporters.
W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Missouri
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence (1945)
- Buried at
- Calvary Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Hal, according to the stars
Core essence
Hal feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Hal is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Hal is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Hal needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Hal wants to be loved
Hal wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Hal, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Hal creates
How Hal makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Hal creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Hal is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hal is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Hal 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 Hal's birth date. Working below.
Where Hal sits
Six lines
Hal’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Hal Boyle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City 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 Kansas City that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kansas City was Castor, in Gemini, 78.7° up.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Kansas City sits at 39.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kansas City on any night.
The Moon, 41% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
How unusual Hal's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire 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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Hal Boyle's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Hal Boyle was born on February 21, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Hal Boyle's birth date, February 21, 1911, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Hal’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hal Boyle's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Hal Boyle combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Hal’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Hal’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.3° to 1.0° orb
Hal’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.5° to 3.0° orb
Hal’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileUranusorb from 4.0° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Hal’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 26°22′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 13°32′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°10′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.6°
Hal’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hal’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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
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- W. H. Auden1907
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Hal’s cards
Computed from February 21, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5640705 (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 Hal Boyle at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hal Boyle.
Quick answers about Hal Boyle’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hal Boyle?
- Hal Boyle was a Pisces: born February 21, 1911, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Hal Boyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1911 birth.
- What was Hal Boyle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hal Boyle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hal Boyle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hal Boyle's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
