Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda (born May 16, 1905, Grand Island, United States; died 1982), was an American actor. Fonda's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
Henry Fonda’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry Fonda’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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 SSA recorded 2,126 American boys and 19 girls named Henry in 1905: 11th among boys and 858th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1905, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Henry apart
The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play came in 1948, when Henry Fonda was 43.
Henry Fonda was taught at Omaha Central High School and University of Minnesota.
Henry Fonda was 23 when the work began in 1928.
Cause of death is recorded as heart disease.
The family line: born to Elma Herberta Jaynes and William Brace Fonda, married Frances Ford Seymour and Shirley Maye Adams and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Henry Fonda under American beekeepers, Fonda family and Best Foreign Actor BAFTA Award winners.
Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Omaha Central High School and University of Minnesota
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1982), Kennedy Center Honors (1979) and BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor (1958)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Picture
- Working from
- 1928
- Cause of death
- heart disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
What the chart says
Henry, according to the stars
Core essence
Henry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Henry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Henry wants to be loved
Henry 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 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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Henry 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Henry runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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
Dedicate a star to Henry Fonda
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grand Island 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 Grand Island that night
Computed for 40.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Grand Island at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Grand Island sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Grand Island on any night.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grand Island, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henry Fonda: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Henry's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · 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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Henry Fonda's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Henry Fonda was born on May 16, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Henry Fonda's birth date, May 16, 1905, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry Fonda's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Henry Fonda 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 17° to 2° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.1° to 1.7° orb
Henry’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.3° to 2.0° orb
Henry’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.4° orb
Henry’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°42′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 10°25′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 28°16′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.3°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.3°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.1°
Henry’s family here
2 relatives of Henry Fonda also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Pat McAfeeAmerican football player and businessman (born 1987)
- Melanie LynskeyNew Zealand actress (born 1977)
- Cindy McCaincommunity organizer
Born in Snake years
- Frances ConroyAmerican actress
- Kyle ChandlerAmerican actor (born 1965)
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
Also born on May 16
- Pierce Brosnan1953
- Janet Jackson1966
- Tucker Carlson1969
- Behati Prinsloo1988
- Megan Fox1986
- IU1993
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist
- Arne TiseliusSwedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
- John Carew EcclesAustralian neurophysiologist
Other Taurus Snake charts
- Betty ComdenAmerican librettist, songwriter, actress
- Munir Mohand MohamediMoroccan footballer
- Thiago AlmadaArgentine footballer
- Nicolas SeiwaldAustrian association football player
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Sam SmithBritish singer-songwriter
- MartaBrazilian footballer
- George LazenbyAustralian actor
- Lily JamesEnglish actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Henry’s cards
Computed from May 16, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19155 (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 Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henry Fonda 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 Fonda.
Quick answers about Henry Fonda’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry Fonda?
- Henry Fonda was a Taurus: born May 16, 1905, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Henry Fonda's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1905 birth.
- How tall was Henry Fonda?
- Henry Fonda was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Henry Fonda's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henry Fonda's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henry Fonda's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry Fonda's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
