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Harrison Salisbury

Harrison Salisbury (born November 14, 1908, Minneapolis, United States; died 1993), was an American journalist. Salisbury's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, George Polk Award and Ischia International Journalism Award.

Harrison Salisbury’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Harrison Salisbury’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Harrison in the U.S.?

#116

US rank in 2025

~99,462

Americans share it since 1880

2016

its peak year

The SSA recorded 59 American boys named Harrison in 1908: 284th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harrison’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

11

Soul Urge · insight

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

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

Harrison’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Harrison apart

The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1955, when Harrison Salisbury was 47.

Harrison Salisbury was taught at North Community High School and University of Minnesota.

The family line: married Charlotte Y. Salisbury.

Wikipedia files Harrison Salisbury under Recipients of Ischia International Journalism Award, North Community High School alumni and Journalists from Minneapolis.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
North Community High School and University of Minnesota
Awards
George Polk Award (1957), Ischia International Journalism Award (1990) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1955)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
12

What the chart says

Harrison, according to the stars

Core essence

Harrison does not do surface. The core of Harrison is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Harrison is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Harrison needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Harrison needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Harrison wants to be loved

Harrison wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Harrison gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Harrison creates

How Harrison makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Harrison creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Harrison 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Harrison is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Harrison fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Harrison's birth date. Working below.

Where Harrison sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Harrison

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harrison

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

PrivateExpressive
Harrison

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harrison

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Harrison

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harrison

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Harrison Salisbury

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

Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Minneapolis at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.8° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 45.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −45.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Minneapolis on any night.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 58% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Minneapolis, United States

The death is recorded at Providence, Providence County in 1993.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Harrison Salisbury: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Harrison's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Venus

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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Harrison Salisbury at a glance

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Harrison Salisbury's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Harrison Salisbury was born on November 14, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Harrison Salisbury's birth date, November 14, 1908, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Harrison’s chart

Harrison’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.8° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.7° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 5° orbSun in Scorpio · 21°59′☉21°Moon in Leo · 8°29′☽8°Mercury in Scorpio · 2°51′☿2°Venus in Libra · 13°25′♀13°Mars in Libra · 22°56′♂22°Jupiter in Virgo · 11°22′♃11°Saturn in Aries · 3°48′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Capricorn · 14°06′♅14°Neptune in Cancer · 16°57′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Gemini · 25°25′ · retrograde♇℞25°

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

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.1° to 1.3° orb

    Harrison’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb

    Harrison’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

    Harrison’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.7° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurytrinePlutoorb from 6.9° to 8.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 18°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius or Scorpio during this date

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 23°11′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mars 0.2°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.4°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.5°

Harrison’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Harrison’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°

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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households

Harrison’s cards

Computed from November 14, 1908. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harrison’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2585413 (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 Ron Kroon for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Harrison Salisbury 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 Harrison Salisbury.

Quick answers about Harrison Salisbury’s chart

What zodiac sign was Harrison Salisbury?
Harrison Salisbury was a Scorpio: born November 14, 1908, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Harrison Salisbury's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1908 birth.
What was Harrison Salisbury's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Harrison Salisbury's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Harrison Salisbury's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Harrison Salisbury's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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