Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, Chicago, United States), aged 82, is an American jazz musician (born 1944). Threadgill's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, NEA Jazz Masters and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Henry Threadgill’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Henry
Henry Threadgill’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1944, 6,975 American boys and 49 girls were registered Henry — 35th among boys and 1,120th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Music came in 2016, when Henry Threadgill was 72.
On Wikipedia the categories read Avant-garde jazz saxophonists, Air (free jazz trio) members and Pi Recordings artists.
Nusli Wadia shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Instruments
- percussion instrument, saxophone and flute
- Awards
- NEA Jazz Masters (2021) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Henry feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Henry needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Henry wants to be loved
Henry wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Henry you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Henry is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Henry scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Threadgill
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 63% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 29° below the horizon.
How unusual Henry's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · No Water 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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Henry Threadgill's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Henry Threadgill was born on February 15, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Henry Threadgill's birth date, February 15, 1944, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry Threadgill's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Henry Threadgill combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Henry’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Henry’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 6.4° orb
Henry’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.1° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssextilePluto4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.9° to 7.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 13°55′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°33′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn or Aquarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°56′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 1.4°
- Chiron square Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Henry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Henry’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
Born the same day as Henry
Nusli Wadia was born on February 15, 1944 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Henry’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q354158 (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 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henry Threadgill at Wikipedia 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 Threadgill.
Quick answers about Henry Threadgill’s chart
- How old is Henry Threadgill?
- Henry Threadgill is 82 years old, born February 15, 1944 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Henry Threadgill?
- Henry Threadgill is an Aquarius: born February 15, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Henry Threadgill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1944 birth.
- What is Henry Threadgill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Henry Threadgill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Henry Threadgill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Henry Threadgill's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
