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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Howard Hanson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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.
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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.
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
Howard’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurytrinePluto4.3° to 5.7° orb
Howard’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.6° orb
Howard’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 3°07′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Howard carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 23°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Howard is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°34′ (moves 0.48° 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. Howard is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°28′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Howard is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Howard carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Howard’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Howard is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Howard’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Howard Hanson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Howard’s cards
Every card is computed from October 28, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Howard Hanson, 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
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q382748, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Hanson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Howard Hanson 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 Howard Hanson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 28, 1896 birth date.
- What was Howard Hanson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 28, 1896 birth date.
- 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.
