Howard Hanson
Howard Hanson (born October 28, 1896, Wahoo, United States; died 1981), was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. Hanson is best remembered for Concerto da Camera in C minor for piano and String Quartet and Merry Mount. Hanson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Rome Prize and Laurel Leaf Award.
Howard Hanson’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Hanson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Howard in the U.S.?
#1004
US rank in 2025
~348,342
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1896, 677 American boys were registered Howard — 33rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
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
The record
What sets Howard apart
Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Howard, according to the stars
Core essence
Howard does not do surface. The core of Howard 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 Howard is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard 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 Howard and watch them fall for you again.
How Howard creates
How Howard makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Howard builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Howard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Howard is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Howard scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Howard's birth date. Working below.
Where Howard sits
Six lines
Howard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Howard Hanson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wahoo 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 Wahoo that night
Computed for 41.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wahoo at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 13.7° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Wahoo sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wahoo on any night.
The Moon, 56% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Howard's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Howard Hanson's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Howard Hanson was born on October 28, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Howard Hanson's birth date, October 28, 1896, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Hanson's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Howard Hanson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Howard’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Howard’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.9° to 2.3° orb
Howard’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.3° to 5.7° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.9° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.7° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMarsorb from 6.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Howard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 3°07′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 23°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°34′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°28′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.7°
- Eros square Mercury 2.8°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Howard’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
More people like Howard
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on October 28
- Bill Gates1955
- Julia Roberts1967
- Joaquin Phoenix1974
- Garrincha1933
- Matt Smith1982
- Caitlyn Jenner1949
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Miltiadis TentoglouGreek male long jumper
- Julius RodriguezAmerican jazz pianist, drummer and composer
- Richard HarrisIrish actor, singer, film director and writer
Other Scorpio Monkey charts
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- Kemal SunalTurkish actor
- Robert AramayoEnglish actor (b. 1992)
- Ruth GordonAmerican actress and writer
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Tony DovolaniBallroom dancer
- David FosterCanadian musician, record producer, songwriter
- Jennie GarthAmerican actress
- Camille GrammerAmerican dancer, model, actress, producer, writer, and television personality (born 1968)
Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Howard’s cards
Computed from October 28, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q382748 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Howard Hanson.
Quick answers about Howard Hanson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Howard Hanson?
- Howard Hanson was a Scorpio: born October 28, 1896, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Howard Hanson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1896 birth.
- What was Howard Hanson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Howard Hanson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Howard Hanson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Howard Hanson's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
