Herbert Agar
Herbert Agar (born September 29, 1897, New Rochelle, United States; died 1980), was an American journalist. Agar's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Herbert Agar’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
Herbert Agar’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Herbert in the U.S.?
#2656
US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Herbert ranked 35th among boys and 1,650th among girls in 1897, the year of this birth, with 565 American boys and 5 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Herbert apart
Herbert Agar took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934, at 37.
Training came by way of Columbia University and Princeton University.
Herbert Agar was born to Agnes Louise MacDonough and John G. Agar and married Adeline Mitchell Scott and Barbara Lutyens.
Wikipedia's editors put Herbert Agar under Editors of Kentucky newspapers, Corporatism and Distributism.
Enrico Fermi (1901) and Michelle Bachelet (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University and Princeton University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1934)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Herbert 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert 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 Herbert 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 Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Herbert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Herbert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Herbert is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Herbert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Herbert's birth date. Working below.
Where Herbert sits
Six lines
Herbert’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 Herbert Agar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Rochelle 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 Rochelle that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New Rochelle at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 12.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 17% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Rochelle, United States
The death is recorded at Sussex, South East England in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Herbert Agar: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Herbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart · No Fire 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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Herbert Agar's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Herbert Agar was born on September 29, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Herbert Agar's birth date, September 29, 1897, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Agar's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert Agar combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° 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
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Herbert’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.1° to 0.7° orb
Herbert’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.8° orb
Herbert’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Herbert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 13°22′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°59′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°40′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 7°10′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°40′ (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 0.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.0°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.3°
Herbert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Herbert’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
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Herbert’s cards
Computed from September 29, 1897. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3785131 (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 Herbert Agar at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Herbert Agar.
Quick answers about Herbert Agar’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert Agar?
- Herbert Agar was a Libra: born September 29, 1897, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Herbert Agar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1897 birth.
- What was Herbert Agar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herbert Agar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Herbert Agar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert Agar's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
