Henry King
Henry King (born January 24, 1886, Christiansburg, United States; died 1982), was an American film director. King's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Henry King’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry King’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood 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
Of the names registered in 1886, Henry came 9th among boys and 620th among girls, carried by 2,404 American boys and 14 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
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
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The record
What sets Henry apart
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) 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.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Henry builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Henry is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Henry channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 King
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Christiansburg 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 Christiansburg that night
Computed for 37.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Christiansburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Christiansburg on any night.
The Moon, 71% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Henry's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Henry King's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Henry King was born on January 24, 1886, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Henry King's birth date, January 24, 1886, 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 King's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Fire.
- Henry King combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.7° orb
Henry’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.8° to 1.8° orb
Henry’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.7° orb
Henry’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.0° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°10′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°52′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.9°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.0°
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- Ingrid Alexandra, Crown Princess of NorwayCrown Princess of Norway
- Princess Louise of BelgiumBelgian princess (born 2004)
Born in Rooster years
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Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
- Frankie Grande1983
- Tatyana Ali1979
- Mischa Barton1986
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Padma LakshmiIndian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer
- Joe ManganielloAmerican actor
- Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
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- Scott DalyAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Trent ScottAmerican football offensive tackle
- Jadeveon ClowneyAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Mario Edwards, Jr.American football player (born 1994)
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Paul AndersonEnglish actor (1978-)
- Skylar AstinAmerican actor
- Ant AnsteadEnglish television presenter, motor specialist and designer
- Selma BlairAmerican actress (born 1972)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Frank RileyAmerican writer
- Orson Scott CardAmerican science fiction novelist (born 1951)
- Caroline ThompsonAmerican writer
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Henry’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1886. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q269505 (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 Woodbury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henry King at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry King.
Quick answers about Henry King’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry King?
- Henry King was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1886, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Henry King's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1886 birth.
- What was Henry King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henry King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henry King's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry King's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
