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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Howard Mumford Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Sagittarius 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.
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
Howard’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.6° orb
Howard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.2° orb
Howard’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 5.4° orb
Howard’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.7° to 5.3° orb
Howard’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.7° to 7.7° orb
Howard’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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 11°55′ (moves 0.01° 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.
⚳ CeresAries 15°28′ (moves 0.40° 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.
♡ ErosGemini 16°15′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Howard is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Howard needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Howard that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.5°
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. ☿ 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
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 Venus 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Howard Mumford Jones, 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 April 16, 1892, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Howard Mumford Jones, 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 Q13489216, 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.
The same Howard Mumford Jones at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Howard Mumford Jones 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 Mumford Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 16, 1892 birth date.
- What was Howard Mumford Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1892 birth date.
- 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.
