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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Harvey
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
No US figure exists for 1869 — the SSA series begins 11 years later. Harvey opened it at 51st, 344 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harvey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harvey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Harvey apart
Harvey Williams Cushing took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1926, at 57.
Training came by way of Harvard Medical School and Yale University.
The working life starts in 1895, at 26.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Lake View Cemetery.
The family line: born to Betsey Maria Williams and Henry Kirke Cushing, married Katherine Stone Crowell and raised 3 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Harvey Williams Cushing: Honorary companions of the Order of the Bath, American neurosurgeons and Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army).
Kofi Annan (1938) and Vivienne Westwood (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard Medical School and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1926), Lister Medal (1930) and honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1929)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Working from
- 1895
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Lake View Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
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. Working below.
Where Harvey sits
Six lines
Harvey’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Harvey Williams Cushing
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cleveland at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cleveland, United States
The death is recorded at New Haven, South Central Connecticut Planning Region in 1939.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Harvey Williams Cushing: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Harvey's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Aries · Grand trine · 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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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 17° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.9° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 0°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°58′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 20°27′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 10°19′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Harvey’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Harvey’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.7°
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Harvey’s cards
Computed from April 8, 1869. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harvey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380038 (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.
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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.
- 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 was Harvey Williams Cushing's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Harvey Williams Cushing's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
