Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915, The Bronx, United States; died 2019), was an American writer. Wouk is best remembered for War and Remembrance, The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War. Wouk's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Golden Plate Award and Navy Unit Commendation.
Herman Wouk’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Herman
Herman Wouk’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Herman in the U.S.?
#2368
US rank in 2025
~136,772
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1915, Herman came 56th among boys and 2,605th among girls, carried by 2,983 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herman’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Herman apart
Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Herman, according to the stars
Core essence
Herman 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. Herman needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Herman 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 Herman 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 Herman wants to be loved
Herman wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Herman is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Herman creates
How Herman makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Herman creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Herman 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Herman is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Herman is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Herman's birth date. Working below.
Where Herman sits
Six lines
Herman’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.
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Dedicate a star to Herman Wouk
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.8° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
How unusual Herman'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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Herman Wouk's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Herman Wouk was born on May 27, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Herman Wouk's birth date, May 27, 1915, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Herman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herman Wouk's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
- Herman Wouk combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Herman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° 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
stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb
Herman’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.3° to 1.0° orb
Herman’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Herman’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Herman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 22°18′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 29°41′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 14°37′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°48′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mars 0.6°
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°
Herman’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Herman’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
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Herman’s cards
Computed from May 27, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49072 (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 IPPA photographer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Herman Wouk 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 Herman Wouk.
Quick answers about Herman Wouk’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herman Wouk?
- Herman Wouk was a Gemini: born May 27, 1915, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Herman Wouk's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1915 birth.
- What was Herman Wouk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herman Wouk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Herman Wouk's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herman Wouk's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
