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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Harry
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.
How common is the name Harry in the U.S.?
#775
US rank in 2025
~425,883
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1916, Harry came 19th among boys and 1,007th among girls, carried by 8,476 American boys and 47 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Harry apart
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Harry sits
Six lines
Harry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Harry Ashmore
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greenville 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 Greenville that night
Computed for 34.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Greenville was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 75.3° up.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 34.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Greenville on any night.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Harry's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune0.5° to 1.1° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars1.5° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 24°01′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 27°57′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 24°27′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
Harry’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Harry’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Harry’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5666990 (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 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harry Ashmore at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harry Ashmore.
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.
- 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 was Harry Ashmore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Harry Ashmore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
