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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, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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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.

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

The SSA recorded 7,563 American boys and 38 girls named Harold in 1914: 14th among boys and 962nd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harold’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

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

The record

What sets Harold apart

Yukio Mishima (1925) and Jason Bateman (1969) 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 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. Working below.

Where Harold sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Harold

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harold

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Harold

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harold

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

PracticalVisionary
Harold

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harold

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Harold Russell

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night

Computed for 46.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Sydney at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Sydney sits at 46.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −43.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sydney on any night.

The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.

How unusual Harold's chart is

Chart pattern score

61 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Fire planets · Mars retrograde

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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Harold Russell in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Plays 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.

What Capricorn means →

Water Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Harold Russell was born on January 14, 1914, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Harold Russell's birth date, January 14, 1914, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Harold’s chart

Harold’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.3° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.7° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.2° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 5.7° orbVenus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 5.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 23°40′☉23°Moon in Leo · 26°01′☽26°Mercury in Capricorn · 16°56′☿16°Venus in Capricorn · 16°54′♀16°Mars in Cancer · 11°13′ · retrograde♂℞11°Jupiter in Capricorn · 28°21′♃28°Saturn in Gemini · 11°57′ · retrograde♄℞11°Uranus in Aquarius · 6°47′♅6°Neptune in Cancer · 26°56′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Gemini · 29°40′ · retrograde♇℞29°

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

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars4.7° to 6.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars4.9° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.4° to 7.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 11°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 16°22′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 4°41′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Harold’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Harold’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Harold’s cards

Computed from January 14, 1914. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q457279 (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 Samuel Goldwyn Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Harold Russell 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 Harold Russell.

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.
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 was Harold Russell's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Harold Russell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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