Harold Russell
Harold Russell (born January 14, 1914, Sydney, Canada; died 2002), was a Film and actor. Russell's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Plate Award and Academy Honorary Award.
Harold Russell’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Ox, with 
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Harold Russell’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
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Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Harold, according to the stars
Core essence
Harold is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Harold is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Harold wants to be loved
Harold wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Harold you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Harold creates
How Harold makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Harold creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Harold is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Harold is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Harold does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Harold's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Harold Russell in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Harold Russell's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 14, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Harold Russell was born on January 14, 1914, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Harold Russell's birth date, January 14, 1914, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Harold’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harold Russell's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Harold Russell combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Harold’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harold Russell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Harold’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb
Harold’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.7° to 3.8° orb
Harold’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.3° to 5.1° orb
Harold’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionMars4.7° to 6.7° orb
Harold’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionMars4.9° to 6.5° orb
Harold’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb
Harold’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.4° to 7.0° orb
Harold’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Harold’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 11°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 16°22′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Harold caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°41′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Harold is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Harold is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Harold carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 0.6°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.5°
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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Harold is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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 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.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harold Russell, 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 January 14, 1914, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harold Russell, 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 Q457279, 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.
Portrait by Samuel Goldwyn Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harold Russell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Harold Russell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harold Russell?
- Harold Russell was a Capricorn: born January 14, 1914, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
- What was Harold Russell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 14, 1914 birth.
- What time was Harold Russell 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 Russell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 14, 1914 birth date.
- What was Harold Russell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 14, 1914 birth date.
- Where was Harold Russell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harold Russell's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
