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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

The SSA recorded 8,019 American boys and 56 girls named Harry in 1927: 25th among boys and 1,026th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

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 record

What sets Harry apart

Javier Bardem (1969) and Lupita Nyong'o (1983) 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 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. Working below.

Where Harry sits

Six lines

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

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Harlem that night

Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Harlem at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Harlem sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Harlem on any night.

The Moon, 5% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.

How unusual Harry's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Sun · 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.

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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.

What Pisces means →

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.

What the Rabbit means →

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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Harry’s chart

Harry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

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

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.2° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.0° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter5.8° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.9° to 6.3° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 29°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Harry’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Harry’s chart

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

  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.8°

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Harry’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1927. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q214959 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harry Belafonte.

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.
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.
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.
What was Harry Belafonte's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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