Harry Ashmore
Harry Ashmore (born July 28, 1916, Greenville, United States; died 1998), was an American journalist and newspaper editor, recipient of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize. Ashmore is best remembered for The man in the middle: Paul Anthony Brick lectures; 5th ser. Ashmore's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Lillian Smith Book Award and The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.
Harry Ashmore’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Harry Ashmore’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~425,883
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Harry, according to the stars
Core essence
Harry is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Harry is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Harry is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Harry needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Harry wants to be loved
Harry wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Harry gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Harry creates
How Harry makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Harry creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Harry is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Harry 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. Harry fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Harry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Harry Ashmore's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Harry Ashmore was born on July 28, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Harry Ashmore's birth date, July 28, 1916, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Harry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harry Ashmore's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Harry Ashmore combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Harry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harry Ashmore, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Cancer 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.9° orb
Harry’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 7.8° orb
Harry’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb
Harry’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarssquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Harry’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Harry’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 2.4° orb
Harry’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.5° to 1.1° orb
Harry’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Harry’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb
Harry’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.7° to 0.8° orb
Harry’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileMars1.5° to 3.0° orb
Harry’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
Harry’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Harry’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 25°59′ (moves 0.02° 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 Harry absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 24°01′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Harry is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 27°57′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Harry wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 24°27′ (moves 0.28° 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. Harry is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Harry guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 conjunction Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
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°).
Harry’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. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Harry is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Harry’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 Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harry Ashmore, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harry’s cards
Every card is computed from July 28, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harry Ashmore, 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
Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5666990, 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 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harry Ashmore at Wikipedia.
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 Harry Ashmore’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harry Ashmore?
- Harry Ashmore was a Leo: born July 28, 1916, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Harry Ashmore's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1916 birth.
- What time was Harry Ashmore 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 Harry Ashmore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 28, 1916 birth date.
- What was Harry Ashmore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 28, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Harry Ashmore's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harry Ashmore's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
