Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross (born May 13, 1927, Brooklyn, United States; died 2001), was an American film director. Ross's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director, National Board of Review Award for Best Film and David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director.
Herbert Ross’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
Herbert Ross’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1927, Herbert came 42nd among boys and 1,266th among girls, carried by 5,017 American boys and 39 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, 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 Herbert apart
Herbert Ross took the Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 1977, at 50.
HB Studio shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1942, at 15.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
On the family side, Herbert Ross was married Lee Radziwill and Nora Kaye.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Herbert Ross: Film directors from Brooklyn, Bouvier family and Musical theatre choreographers.
Stevie Wonder (1950) and Scott Morrison (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- HB Studio
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1977)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture
- Working from
- 1942
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Herbert is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Herbert needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Herbert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Herbert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Herbert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Herbert leads without needing to do it alone.
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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Ross
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Herbert Ross: 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
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air 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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Herbert Ross's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Herbert Ross was born on May 13, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Herbert Ross's birth date, May 13, 1927, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Ross' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert Ross combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Libra 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Herbert’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareUranus0.1° to 1.2° orb
Herbert’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.7° to 2.2° orb
Herbert’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.9° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Herbert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 18°41′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 2°52′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 3°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.5°
Herbert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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Herbert’s cards
Computed from May 13, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q711415 (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 Ross at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Herbert Ross.
Quick answers about Herbert Ross’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert Ross?
- Herbert Ross was a Taurus: born May 13, 1927, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Herbert Ross's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1927 birth.
- What was Herbert Ross's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herbert Ross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Herbert Ross's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert Ross's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
