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Hodding Carter

Hodding Carter (born February 3, 1907, Hammond, United States; died 1972), was an American writer. Carter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Hodding Carter’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Hodding Carter’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

What Hodding’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on H (8) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Hodding’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Ivory · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1906, 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 Hodding apart

Hodding Carter took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945, at 38.

Training came by way of Bowdoin College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The grave is at Greenville Cemetery.

On the family side, Hodding Carter was raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Hodding Carter: Journalists from Louisiana, People from Hammond, Louisiana and Louisiana Democrats.

The same date carries James A. Michener. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Bowdoin College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Harvard University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1945) and Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1946)
Buried at
Greenville Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Hodding, according to the stars

Core essence

Hodding is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Hodding is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Hodding 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 Hodding 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 Hodding wants to be loved

Hodding wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Hodding and watch them fall for you again.

How Hodding creates

How Hodding makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hodding creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Hodding is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Hodding is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Hodding runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Hodding's birth date. Working below.

Where Hodding sits

Six lines

Hodding’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Hodding

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hodding

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Hodding

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hodding

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Hodding

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hodding

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hammond on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Hodding’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 83.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Elnath →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 72.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hammond that night

Computed for 30.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hammond at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

From 30.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −59.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hammond on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 71% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Hammond, United States

The death is recorded at Greenville, Washington County in 1972.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hodding Carter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Hodding's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Hodding Carter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 3, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Hodding Carter was born on February 3, 1907, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Hodding Carter's birth date, February 3, 1907, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Hodding’s chart

Hodding’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.2° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 13°47′☉13°Moon in Libra · 14°50′☽14°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°32′☿14°Venus in Sagittarius · 27°07′♀27°Mars in Scorpio · 29°02′♂29°Jupiter in Cancer · 1°49′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Pisces · 13°39′♄13°Uranus in Capricorn · 10°36′♅10°Neptune in Cancer · 10°25′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Gemini · 21°55′ · retrograde♇℞21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Hodding’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Hodding’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Hodding’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.7° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.4° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 6.3° to 19.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Hodding’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 12°56′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 6°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 20°36′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 8°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.6°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°

Hodding’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Hodding’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°

Born the same day as Hodding

James A. Michener was born on February 3, 1907 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Hammond sits at 30.5°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Hodding’s cards

Computed from February 3, 1907. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hodding’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5875972 (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 Detroit Times; promotional photograph with no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hodding Carter at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hodding Carter.

Quick answers about Hodding Carter’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hodding Carter?
Hodding Carter was an Aquarius: born February 3, 1907, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Hodding Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 3, 1907 birth.
What was Hodding Carter's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Hodding Carter's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Hodding Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hodding Carter's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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