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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Herman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Herman sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Herman Wouk, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Herman’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb
Herman’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars3.0° to 3.5° orb
Herman’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
Herman’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
Herman’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
Herman’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
Herman’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Herman’s growth grinds against their depths.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 22°18′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Herman absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 29°41′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Herman looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosLeo 14°37′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Herman loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°48′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Herman at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Herman that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Herman’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Herman is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Herman’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Herman Wouk, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Herman’s cards
Every card is computed from May 27, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Herman Wouk, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Herman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49072, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- 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 time was Herman Wouk born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Herman Wouk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 27, 1915 birth date.
- What was Herman Wouk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 27, 1915 birth date.
- 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.
