Herbert Feis
Herbert Feis (born June 7, 1893, New York City, United States; died 1972), was an American historian. Feis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Herbert Feis’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
Herbert Feis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, 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
Of the names registered in 1893, Herbert came 41st, carried by 519 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (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
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Herbert apart
Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Herbert needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Herbert needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Herbert like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Herbert creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Herbert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Herbert does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 Feis
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: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 45% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual Herbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Herbert Feis's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Herbert Feis was born on June 7, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Herbert Feis's birth date, June 7, 1893, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Feis' date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert Feis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Pisces 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 6.9° orb
Herbert’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb
Herbert’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Herbert’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.1° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 29°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 3°17′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 9°18′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 17°07′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.3°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.7°
Herbert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Herbert’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 2.3°
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Herbert’s cards
Computed from June 7, 1893. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5734072 (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 Feis 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 Feis.
Quick answers about Herbert Feis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert Feis?
- Herbert Feis was a Gemini: born June 7, 1893, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Herbert Feis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1893 birth.
- What was Herbert Feis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herbert Feis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Herbert Feis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert Feis's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
