Herb Simon
Herb Simon (born October 20, 1934, New York City, United States), aged 92, is an American businessman (born 1934).
Herb Simon’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Herb
Herb Simon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Herb in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~2,007
Americans share it since 1884
1947
its peak year
Herb ranked 1,138th in 1934, the year of this birth, with 34 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herb’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 B (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herb’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Herb apart
Training came by way of City College of New York.
On the family side, Herb Simon was married Diane Meyer Simon and Bui Simon and raised one child.
Kamala Harris (1964) and Elfriede Jelinek (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- City College of New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Herb, according to the stars
Core essence
Herb makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Herb is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Herb wants to be loved
Herb wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Herb gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Herb creates
How Herb 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. Herb 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: Herb is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Herb is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Herb 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 Herb's birth date. Working below.
Where Herb sits
Six lines
Herb’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Herb Simon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 13.0° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
How unusual Herb's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Herb Simon at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Herb Simon's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Herb Simon was born on October 20, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Herb Simon's birth date, October 20, 1934, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Herb’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herb Simon's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Herb Simon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Herb’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
Herb’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.4° to 0.8° orb
Herb’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineUranus1.6° to 2.2° orb
Herb’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.3° to 7.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Herb’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 26°38′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 18°52′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 21°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.9°
Herb’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Herb’s chart
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
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- Garry WillsAmerican author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)
- John CazaleAmerican actor
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Born in Dog years
- Roger ReynoldsAmerican composer (born 1934)
- Bernard BailynAmerican historian
- George WalkerAmerican classical composer
Also born on October 20
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Snoop Dogg1971
- Viggo Mortensen1958
- John Krasinski1979
- Dannii Minogue1971
- Candice Swanepoel1988
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Peter BalakianArmenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
- Howard HansonAmerican composer, conductor, educator and music theorist
- Alan DiazAmerican photographer and photojournalist
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Other Evergreen Visionarys
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Herb’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herb’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5735576 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Herb Simon.
Quick answers about Herb Simon’s chart
- How old is Herb Simon?
- Herb Simon is 92 years old, born October 20, 1934 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Herb Simon?
- Herb Simon is a Libra: born October 20, 1934, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Herb Simon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1934 birth.
- What is Herb Simon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Herb Simon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Herb Simon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Herb Simon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
