Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (born February 29, 1920, New York City, United States; died 1991), was a Poet. Nemerov's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.
Howard Nemerov’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Nemerov’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1920, Howard came 24th among boys and 1,146th among girls, carried by 7,466 American boys and 44 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Howard apart
Ferran Torres (2000) and Tony Robbins (1960) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Howard is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Howard is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Howard needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Howard be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Howard creates
How Howard makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Howard creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Howard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Howard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 8.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Howard's chart is
Chart pattern score
78 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Venus · 3-planet stellium in Pisces · Grand trine
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Howard Nemerov's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 29, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Howard Nemerov was born on February 29, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Howard Nemerov's birth date, February 29, 1920, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Nemerov's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Howard Nemerov combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Cancer 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
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Howard’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Howard’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Howard’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.7° to 2.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.2° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune1.4° to 1.6° orb
stableSuntrineMars1.5° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Howard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 4°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 17°04′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°08′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 14°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.1°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
7 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Howard’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Kite · Sun, Mars, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Venus · Saturn, Pluto, VenusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.3°
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Also born on February 29
- Ferran Torres2000
- Tony Robbins1960
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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Other Radiant Seekers
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Howard’s cards
Computed from February 29, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q429011 (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.
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Quick answers about Howard Nemerov’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Howard Nemerov?
- Howard Nemerov was a Pisces: born February 29, 1920, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Howard Nemerov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 29, 1920 birth.
- What was Howard Nemerov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Howard Nemerov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Howard Nemerov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Howard Nemerov's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
