AsterNymAsterNym
Portrait of Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland (born September 14, 1860, West Salem, United States; died 1940), was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer. Garland's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Hamlin Garland’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

Your match with Hamlin

Free, no account, stays on this device. Add a birth time later.

Hamlin Garland’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

What Hamlin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Hamlin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

The record

What sets Hamlin apart

Leo XIV (1955) and Sam Neill (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Hamlin, according to the stars

Core essence

Hamlin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Hamlin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Hamlin is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Hamlin needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Hamlin wants to be loved

Hamlin wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hamlin openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Hamlin creates

How Hamlin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Hamlin creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Hamlin is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Hamlin is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Hamlin 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 Hamlin's birth date. Working below.

Where Hamlin sits

Six lines

Hamlin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Hamlin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hamlin

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Hamlin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hamlin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Hamlin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hamlin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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 Hamlin Garland

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

Hamlin’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 87.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 25° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over West Salem that night

Computed for 43.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at West Salem was Deneb, in Cygnus, 87.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

West Salem sits at 43.9°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 West Salem at all: they sit past the −46.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.

How unusual Hamlin's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Virgo

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 →

Hamlin Garland in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Sees the typo from across the room.

Hamlin Garland's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1860, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Hamlin Garland was born on September 14, 1860, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 2

Holds the room together.

Hamlin Garland's birth date, September 14, 1860, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Hamlin’s chart

Hamlin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 2° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.9° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.6° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.6° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.6° orbSun in Virgo · 22°06′☉22°Moon in Virgo · 14°54′☽14°Mercury in Virgo · 15°39′☿15°Venus in Leo · 6°43′♀6°Mars in Capricorn · 24°04′♂24°Jupiter in Leo · 16°35′♃16°Saturn in Virgo · 2°27′♄2°Uranus in Gemini · 12°01′♅12°Neptune in Pisces · 28°09′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Taurus · 9°16′ · retrograde♇℞9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 7.5° orb

    Hamlin’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • stableSuntrineMars1.7° to 2.3° orb

    Hamlin’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.1° to 3.0° orb

    Hamlin’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.2° to 14.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Hamlin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 23°48′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 19°20′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 11°47′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 19°11′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Uranus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.4°
  • Eros trine Pluto 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.7°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.8°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Hamlin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    in its own sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Hamlin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°

More people like Hamlin

Other writers

Born in United States

More charts like Hamlin’s

Fellow Virgo suns

All about Virgo →

Born in Monkey years

Year of the Monkey →

Also born on September 14

Fellow Yin Metal day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Virgo Monkey charts

Other Gilded Healers

The Gilded Healer explained →

Famous people with Life Path 2

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Hamlin’s cards

Computed from September 14, 1860. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hamlin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q941794 (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.

Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hamlin Garland at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hamlin Garland.

Quick answers about Hamlin Garland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hamlin Garland?
Hamlin Garland was a Virgo: born September 14, 1860, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Hamlin Garland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1860 birth.
What was Hamlin Garland's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Hamlin Garland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Hamlin Garland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hamlin Garland's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

More charts to explore