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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born March 1, 1927, Harlem, United States; died 2023), was an American singer, actor and civil rights activist. Belafonte is best remembered for Banana Boat (Day-O) and Calypso. Belafonte's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Marian Anderson Award and Kennedy Center Honors.

Harry Belafonte’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Harry Belafonte’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Harry, according to the stars

Core essence

Harry feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Harry is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Harry needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Harry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Harry wants to be loved

Harry wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Harry creates

How Harry makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Harry builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Harry is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Harry is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Harry scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Harry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Harry sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Harry

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harry

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Harry

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harry

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

PracticalVisionary
Harry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harry

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

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harlem on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Harry’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 62.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Harry Belafonte's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Fire Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Harry Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Harry Belafonte's birth date, March 1, 1927, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Harry’s chart

Harry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Harry Belafonte, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.3° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.4° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Pisces · 10°07′☉10°Moon in Aquarius · 10°43′☽10°Mercury in Pisces · 26°59′☿26°Venus in Aries · 3°54′♀3°Mars in Gemini · 4°01′♂4°Jupiter in Pisces · 9°56′♃9°Saturn in Sagittarius · 7°27′♄7°Uranus in Pisces · 28°18′♅28°Neptune in Leo · 25°13′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Cancer · 13°55′ · retrograde♇℞13°

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.

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

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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.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Harry’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Harry’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.2° to 1.5° orb

    Harry’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.2° to 3.2° orb

    Harry’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb

    Harry’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb

    Harry’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.2° to 3.7° orb

    Harry’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb

    Harry’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb

    Harry’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.0° to 6.2° orb

    Harry’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter5.8° to 6.1° orb

    Harry’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareMars5.9° to 6.3° orb

    Harry’s core identity grinds against their drive.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 28°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Harry may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 15°03′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Harry is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosAries 5°10′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Harry is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 14°34′ (moves 0.11° 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 LilithVirgo 29°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Harry exacting with themselves first.

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.

  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Eros trine Saturn 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.6°

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. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Harry is read as tuned to what is not said.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Saturn, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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 biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harry Belafonte, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Temperance

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Rabbit 卯

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Harry Belafonte, 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 Q214959, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Harry Belafonte at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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 Belafonte’s chart

What zodiac sign was Harry Belafonte?
Harry Belafonte was a Pisces: born March 1, 1927, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
What was Harry Belafonte's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1927 birth.
What time was Harry Belafonte 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.
How tall was Harry Belafonte?
Harry Belafonte was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Harry Belafonte's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 1, 1927 birth date.
What was Harry Belafonte's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 1, 1927 birth date.
Where was Harry Belafonte's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Harry Belafonte's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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