Henry Adams
Henry Adams (born February 16, 1838, Boston, United States; died 1918), was an American journalist, historian, academic, novelist. Adams is best remembered for The Education of Henry Adams. Adams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Legum Doctor and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Henry Adams’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry Adams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Henry in the U.S.?
#5
US rank in 2025
~773,564
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
The earliest American count for Henry is 1880, 42 years on: 9th among boys and 530th among girls, 2,444 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Henry apart
The Weeknd (1990) and Bebeto (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Henry, according to the stars
Core essence
Henry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Henry is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Henry feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Henry needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Henry wants to be loved
Henry wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Henry, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Henry creates
How Henry makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Henry creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Henry is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Henry is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Henry goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Henry's birth date. Working below.
Where Henry sits
Six lines
Henry’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Henry Adams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Boston at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 57% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Henry's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · 2 unaspected planets · Venus retrograde
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Henry Adams's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1838, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Dog
Earth DogWorries so you don't have to.
Henry Adams was born on February 16, 1838, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Henry Adams's birth date, February 16, 1838, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry Adams' date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Henry Adams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Scorpio 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.4° to 1.3° orb
Henry’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.4° to 1.2° orb
Henry’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.5° to 1.7° orb
Henry’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 7.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn6.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 6.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.8° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 6.2° to 17.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 16°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 12°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°23′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio or Libra during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.4°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.9°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
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Born in Dog years
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 11
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Henry’s cards
Computed from February 16, 1838. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q458390 (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 William Notman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henry Adams at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry Adams.
Quick answers about Henry Adams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry Adams?
- Henry Adams was an Aquarius: born February 16, 1838, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Henry Adams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1838 birth.
- What was Henry Adams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henry Adams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henry Adams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry Adams's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
