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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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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.
Hodding’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Hodding sits
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Hodding’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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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.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird 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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Hodding Carter was born on February 3, 1907, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Hodding’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hodding Carter's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Hodding Carter combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Hodding’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hodding Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Libra 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.
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
Hodding’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
Hodding’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
Hodding’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.7° orb
Hodding’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 12°56′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Hodding making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresGemini 6°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Hodding feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°36′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Hodding is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 8°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Hodding needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°54′ (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 Hodding 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.
- 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°
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°).
Hodding’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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Hodding is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Hodding’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hodding Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Hodding
James A. Michener was born on February 3, 1907 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Hodding’s cards
Every card is computed from February 3, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Hodding Carter, 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
Hodding’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5875972, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- 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 time was Hodding Carter 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 Hodding Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 3, 1907 birth date.
- What was Hodding Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 3, 1907 birth date.
- 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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