Harold C. Schonberg
Harold C. Schonberg (born November 29, 1915, New York City, United States; died 2003), was an American writer. Schonberg's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Harold C. Schonberg’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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Harold C. Schonberg’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
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#993
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~554,280
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Harold, according to the stars
Core essence
Harold is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Harold is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Harold wants to be loved
Harold 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 Harold and watch them fall for you again.
How Harold creates
How Harold 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. Harold 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: Harold is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Harold is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Harold fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Harold's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Harold sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Harold C. Schonberg at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Harold C. Schonberg's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 29, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Harold C. Schonberg was born on November 29, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Harold C. Schonberg's birth date, November 29, 1915, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Harold’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harold C. Schonberg's date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Harold C. Schonberg combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Harold’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harold C. Schonberg, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableVenustrineMars1.6° to 2.5° orb
Harold’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercurysquareMars2.6° to 3.9° orb
Harold’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
Harold’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb
Harold’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.4° to 5.9° orb
Harold’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.0° to 7.2° orb
Harold’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.7° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareJupiterorb from 6.6° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Harold’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 ℞Pisces 18°07′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Harold absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 19°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Harold is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°44′ (moves 0.61° 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 Harold attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 9°27′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Harold is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Harold that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.4°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.9°
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°).
Harold’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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Harold is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Harold’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harold C. Schonberg, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harold’s cards
Every card is computed from November 29, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harold C. Schonberg, 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
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2656164, 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.
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Quick answers about Harold C. Schonberg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harold C. Schonberg?
- Harold C. Schonberg was a Sagittarius: born November 29, 1915, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- What was Harold C. Schonberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 29, 1915 birth.
- What time was Harold C. Schonberg 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 Harold C. Schonberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 29, 1915 birth date.
- What was Harold C. Schonberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 29, 1915 birth date.
- Where was Harold C. Schonberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harold C. Schonberg's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
