Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones (born April 16, 1892, Saginaw, United States; died 1980), was an U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English. Jones's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Howard Mumford Jones’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Mumford Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
Of the names registered in 1892, Howard came 39th, carried by 548 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 6: craft against care.
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
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Howard apart
Howard Mumford Jones took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935, at 43.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Howard Mumford Jones: Boston Evening Transcript people, Presidents of the Modern Language Association and University of Michigan faculty.
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (1965), Guggenheim Fellowship (1935) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1965)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
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 an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Howard needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Howard like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Howard creates
How Howard makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Howard creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Howard is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Howard is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Howard does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Mumford Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saginaw 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 Saginaw that night
Computed for 43.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Saginaw was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.4°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 Saginaw at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon down and 80% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saginaw, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Howard Mumford Jones: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Howard's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Howard Mumford Jones's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Howard Mumford Jones was born on April 16, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Howard Mumford Jones's birth date, April 16, 1892, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Mumford Jones' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Howard Mumford Jones combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Sagittarius 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
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
Howard’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Howard’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.2° orb
Howard’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.4° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 2.5° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 11°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 15°28′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 16°15′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.5°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.5°
More people like Howard
Born in United States
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- Leonard D. WhiteAmerican historian
- Russel CrouseAmerican playwright
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- James Phinney Baxter IIIAmerican historian
- Sidney HowardAmerican playwright
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Fellow Aries suns
- SelenaAmerican singer
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- Jane GoodallEnglish primatologist and anthropologist
Born in Dragon years
- Elsa PatakySpanish model and actress
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- Roberto CavalliItalian fashion designer
Also born on April 16
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
- Blake Fielder-Civil1982
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Whoopi GoldbergAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
- Stanisław LemPolish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor
- Stevie WonderAmerican and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
Other Aries Dragon charts
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- James WatsonAmerican molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate
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Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Sigmund FreudAustrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Jason BatemanAmerican actor
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman
- Mark Carney24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Kim Jong-unSupreme Leader of North Korea since 2011
- Enrico FermiItalian–American physicist
- Donald J. Trump45th and 47th President of the United States
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Howard’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13489216 (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 Howard Mumford Jones at Wikipedia.
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Quick answers about Howard Mumford Jones’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Howard Mumford Jones?
- Howard Mumford Jones was an Aries: born April 16, 1892, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Howard Mumford Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1892 birth.
- What was Howard Mumford Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Howard Mumford Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Howard Mumford Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Howard Mumford Jones's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
