Henry James
Henry James (born May 18, 1879, Boston, United States; died 1947), was an American biographer. James's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Henry James’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry James’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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
US name records start in 1880, 1 years after this birth. In that first year Henry ranked 9th among boys and 530th among girls, with 2,444 American boys and 11 girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The record
What sets Henry apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1931, when Henry James was 52.
The schooling ran through Harvard Law School.
On Wikipedia the categories read Cutting family, Massachusetts lawyers and Rockefeller University people.
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard Law School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1931)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Henry gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Henry creates
How Henry makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Henry creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Henry is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Henry is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Henry slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 James
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 86.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.6° 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, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boston, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1947.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henry James: 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
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · No Air planets
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 →Henry James at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Henry James's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1879, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Henry James was born on May 18, 1879, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Henry James's birth date, May 18, 1879, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry James' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Henry James combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.8° orb
Henry’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMoontrineUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Henry’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Henry’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.9° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 12°57′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 7°21′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Mars 1.7°
- Eros square Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.9°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
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- Prince Emmanuel of Belgiumyounger son and third child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- DannyLuxAmerican singer
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Henry’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1879. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5723817 (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 James 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 James.
Quick answers about Henry James’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry James?
- Henry James was a Taurus: born May 18, 1879, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Henry James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1879 birth.
- What was Henry James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henry James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henry James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry James's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
