Harvey Williams Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (born April 8, 1869, Cleveland, United States; died 1939), was an American neurosurgeon. Cushing's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Sterling Professor and Lister Medal.
Harvey Williams Cushing’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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Harvey Williams Cushing’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Harvey in the U.S.?
#251
US rank in 2025
~128,792
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Harvey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Harvey, according to the stars
Core essence
Harvey leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Harvey is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Harvey is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Harvey needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Harvey wants to be loved
Harvey 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 Harvey creates
How Harvey makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Harvey creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Harvey is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Harvey is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Harvey fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Harvey's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Harvey Williams Cushing's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 8, 1869, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeSays less than it knows.
Harvey Williams Cushing was born on April 8, 1869, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Harvey Williams Cushing's birth date, April 8, 1869, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Harvey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harvey Williams Cushing's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Harvey Williams Cushing combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Harvey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harvey Williams Cushing, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 17° Pisces 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.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Harvey’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto0.3° to 0.5° orb
Harvey’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
Harvey’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
Harvey’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Harvey’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
Harvey’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb
Harvey’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineMars2.2° to 3.0° orb
Harvey’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableUranussextilePluto2.4° orb
Harvey’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° orb
Harvey’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
Harvey’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineMars4.9° to 6.0° orb
Harvey’s affections flow straight into their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Harvey’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 0°60′ (moves 0.06° 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: Harvey may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 12°58′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Harvey looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosTaurus 20°27′ (moves 0.86° 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 Harvey wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 10°19′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Harvey is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Harvey is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 square Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.1°
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°).
Harvey’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. ♂ Mars12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Harvey is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Harvey’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 Aries · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
- Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harvey Williams Cushing, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harvey’s cards
Every card is computed from April 8, 1869, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harvey Williams Cushing, 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
Harvey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380038, 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.
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The same Harvey Williams Cushing 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 Harvey Williams Cushing’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harvey Williams Cushing?
- Harvey Williams Cushing was an Aries: born April 8, 1869, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Harvey Williams Cushing's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 8, 1869 birth.
- What time was Harvey Williams Cushing 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 Harvey Williams Cushing's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 8, 1869 birth date.
- What was Harvey Williams Cushing's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 8, 1869 birth date.
- Where was Harvey Williams Cushing's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harvey Williams Cushing's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
