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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Harold
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.
How common is the name Harold in the U.S.?
#993
US rank in 2025
~554,280
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Harold ranked 12th among boys and 1,004th among girls in 1915, the year of this birth, with 10,444 American boys and 44 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harold’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Harold apart
Chadwick Boseman (1976) and Anna Faris (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Harold sits
Six lines
Harold’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Harold C. Schonberg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 49% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Harold's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.4° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.0° to 7.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°07′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 19°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°44′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 9°27′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Harold’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Harold’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.
- 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°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on November 29
- Chadwick Boseman1976
- Anna Faris1976
- Russell Wilson1988
- Rahm Emanuel1959
- Andrew McCarthy1962
- Don Cheadle1964
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- J. R. R. TolkienEnglish writer and philologist
- Elon MuskAmerican businessman
- Jorge Luis BorgesArgentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
Other Sagittarius Rabbit charts
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- Matt WaletzkoAmerican football offensive tackle
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Other Evergreen Seekers
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- Quenton NelsonAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Jalen MilroeAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Tyler BadieAmerican football player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Yuito SuzukiJapanese association football player
- Malo GustoFrench footballer (born 2003)
- Nick WoltemadeGerman association football player (born 2002)
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Harold’s cards
Computed from November 29, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2656164 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harold C. Schonberg.
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.
- 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 was Harold C. Schonberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Harold C. Schonberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
