Homer Bigart
Homer Bigart (born October 25, 1907, Hawley, United States; died 1991), was an American journalist. Bigart's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Homer Bigart’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Homer
Homer Bigart’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Homer in the U.S.?
#4769
US rank in 2025
~61,279
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
In 1907, 312 American boys were registered Homer — 84th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Homer’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Homer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, 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 Homer apart
The George Polk Award came in 1950, when Homer Bigart was 43.
On the family side, Homer Bigart was married Else Holmelund Minarik.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Wayne County, Pennsylvania, Journalists from Pennsylvania and New York Herald Tribune people.
Pablo Picasso (1881) and Katy Perry (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1950) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1951)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Homer, according to the stars
Core essence
Homer does not do surface. The core of Homer is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Homer is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Homer processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Homer needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Homer wants to be loved
Homer wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Homer even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Homer creates
How Homer 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. Homer 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: Homer is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Homer is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Homer goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Homer's birth date. Working below.
Where Homer sits
Six lines
Homer’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Homer Bigart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hawley 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 Hawley that night
Computed for 41.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hawley was Scheat, in Pegasus, 75.9° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Hawley sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hawley on any night.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 79% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hawley, United States
The death is recorded at Portsmouth, Rockingham County in 1991.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Homer Bigart: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Homer's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Venus
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Homer Bigart's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 25, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Homer Bigart was born on October 25, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Homer Bigart's birth date, October 25, 1907, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Homer’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Homer Bigart's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Homer Bigart combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Homer’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini 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
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.0° to 6.3° orb
Homer’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Homer’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussextileUranus1.9° to 3.1° orb
Homer’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto6.0° to 7.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Homer’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°06′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°03′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 16°52′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°00′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.8°
- Chiron square Venus 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros square Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.9°
Homer’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Homer’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Jupiter, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.3°
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Homer’s cards
Computed from October 25, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Homer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13560405 (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 Homer Bigart at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Homer Bigart.
Quick answers about Homer Bigart’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Homer Bigart?
- Homer Bigart was a Scorpio: born October 25, 1907, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Homer Bigart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1907 birth.
- What was Homer Bigart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Homer Bigart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Homer Bigart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Homer Bigart's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
