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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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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.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Henry sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Henry King, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Henry’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.4° orb
Henry’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb
Henry’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.3° orb
Henry’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.8° orb
Henry’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
Henry’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.0° to 5.2° orb
Henry’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto6.0° orb
Henry’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrinePluto6.4° orb
Henry’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Henry turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Henry caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°10′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Henry is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°52′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Henry is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Henry at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Henry’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Henry is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Henry King, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Henry’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1886, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Henry King, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q269505, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Woodbury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henry King at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
- 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 time was Henry King born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Henry King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1886 birth date.
- What was Henry King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1886 birth date.
- 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.
