Henry Brant
Henry Brant (born September 15, 1913, Montreal, Canada; died 2008), was an American composer. Brant is best remembered for Ice Field. Brant's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts and Letters Award in Music.
Henry Brant’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry Brant’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1913, Henry came 12th among boys and 889th among girls, carried by 6,391 American boys and 36 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
2
Personality · warm, careful
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
Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Henry apart
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Henry is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Henry wants to be loved
Henry wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Henry openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Henry creates
How Henry 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. Henry 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: Henry is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Henry is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montreal 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 Montreal that night
Computed for 45.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Montreal at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.0° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −44.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Montreal on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.
How unusual Henry's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Henry Brant's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Henry Brant was born on September 15, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Henry Brant's birth date, September 15, 1913, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry Brant's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Henry Brant combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.0° to 7.7° orb
Henry’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.3° orb
Henry’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.4° to 1.3° orb
Henry’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.8° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.5° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.1° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.2° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.3° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Pisces 12°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 0°54′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 8°45′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°48′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 22°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.1°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°
More people like Henry
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- Benny Goodman1909
- John La Montaine1920
- Frederick Loewe1901
- Charles Singleton1913
- William Schuman1910
Born in Canada
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- Frederick BantingCanadian medical scientist and doctor
- Jack KruschenCanadian actor
- Willard BoyleCanadian physicist and inventor
- Harold Russellfilm and television actor
- William GiauqueAmerican chemist
More charts like Henry’s
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Born in Ox years
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- Santiago Meleassociation football player
- Mikel OyarzabalSpanish footballer (born 1997)
Also born on September 15
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Dejounte MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Mohamed BambaAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jose AlvaradoPuerto Rican basketball player (born 1998)
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Adrienne MaloofAmerican businesswoman and television personality
- Andrew LincolnBritish actor (born 1973)
- Bill O'ReillyAmerican political commentator, television host and writer
- Gene SimmonsIsraeli-American musician and songwriter (born 1949)
Other Steadfast Healers
- Sergei PopovRussian businessman and banker
- Jayshree UllalBritish chief executive
- Barack Obama44th President of the United States
- Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Daniel BrühlGerman actor
- Shirley HendersonBritish actress
- Kyle ChandlerAmerican actor (born 1965)
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Henry’s cards
Computed from September 15, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1606553 (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.
The same Henry Brant at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry Brant.
Quick answers about Henry Brant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry Brant?
- Henry Brant was a Virgo: born September 15, 1913, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Henry Brant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1913 birth.
- What was Henry Brant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henry Brant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henry Brant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry Brant's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
