Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson (born August 25, 1942, Manchester, United Kingdom), aged 84, is a British author and journalist. Jacobson's honours include Booker Prize, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Howard Jacobson’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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Howard Jacobson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Howard, according to the stars
Core essence
Howard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Howard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Howard needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Howard needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Howard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Howard creates
How Howard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Howard creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Howard 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Howard is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Howard channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Howard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Howard Jacobson at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Howard Jacobson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Howard Jacobson was born on August 25, 1942, which falls in a Water 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 22
Life Path 22The cathedral builder.
Howard Jacobson's birth date, August 25, 1942, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Jacobson's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Howard Jacobson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Howard Jacobson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Aquarius 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.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.9° to 2.1° orb
Howard’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.1° to 1.5° orb
Howard’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Howard’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb
Howard’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.3° to 3.9° orb
Howard’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.4° to 4.6° orb
Howard’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.4° orb
Howard’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.9° orb
Howard’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.2° orb
Howard’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 2.6° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.4° to 17.7° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileJupiterorb from 3.9° to 5.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 20°27′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Howard performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°02′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Howard looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 12°14′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Howard is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 23°27′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Howard is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 29°40′ (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 Howard 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.
- Eros trine Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros opposition Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
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. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Howard is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Howard Jacobson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Howard’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Howard Jacobson, 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 Q357929, 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 British Library, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Jacobson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Jacobson’s chart
- How old is Howard Jacobson?
- Howard Jacobson is 84 years old, born August 25, 1942 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Howard Jacobson?
- Howard Jacobson is a Virgo: born August 25, 1942, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- What is Howard Jacobson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1942 birth.
- What time was Howard Jacobson 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 is Howard Jacobson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1942 birth date.
- What is Howard Jacobson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Howard Jacobson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Howard Jacobson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
