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Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay (born March 29, 1889, New York City, United States; died 1968), was an American theatrical producer, director, playwright, librettist and actor. Lindsay's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Musical.

Howard Lindsay’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Howard Lindsay’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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

Howard ranked 38th in 1889, the year of this birth, with 503 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Howard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

8

Soul Urge · achievement

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

22 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Howard apart

Lucy Lawless (1968) and Sam Walton (1918) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Howard is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Howard is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Howard needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Howard wants to be loved

Howard wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Howard is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Howard

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Howard

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Howard

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Howard

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Howard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Howard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.2° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.

How unusual Howard's chart is

Chart pattern score

30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet

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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Howard Lindsay in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Howard Lindsay's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Howard Lindsay was born on March 29, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 22

Structure for the many.

Howard Lindsay's birth date, March 29, 1889, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Howard’s chart

Howard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.5° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.2° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.4° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Aries · 9°12′☉9°Moon in Pisces · 17°50′☽17°Mercury in Pisces · 16°18′☿16°Venus in Taurus · 16°51′♀16°Mars in Taurus · 0°21′♂0°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°13′♃7°Saturn in Leo · 13°39′ · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Libra · 20°26′ · retrograde♅℞20°Neptune in Gemini · 0°11′♆0°Pluto in Gemini · 4°18′♇4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Howard’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.3° orb

    Howard’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.5° to 2.4° orb

    Howard’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.0° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 4.0° to 17.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 5.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarstrineJupiterorb from 6.5° to 7.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 6.9° to 20.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 5°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 24°14′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 10°52′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°31′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 16°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.3°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.4°
  • Eros square Sun 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Sun 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 3.0°

Howard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun

Configurations in Howard’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°

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Howard’s cards

Computed from March 29, 1889. Tap to flip.

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Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1374517 (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.

Portrait by Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Howard Lindsay at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Howard Lindsay.

Quick answers about Howard Lindsay’s chart

What zodiac sign was Howard Lindsay?
Howard Lindsay was an Aries: born March 29, 1889, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Howard Lindsay's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1889 birth.
What was Howard Lindsay's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Howard Lindsay's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Howard Lindsay's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Howard Lindsay's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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