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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~348,342
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, 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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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Howard Nemerov in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Howard Nemerov, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Cancer 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.
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
Howard’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb
Howard’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.2° to 2.6° orb
Howard’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.4° to 1.6° orb
Howard’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineMars1.5° to 2.3° orb
Howard’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.9° to 2.1° orb
Howard’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Howard’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
Howard’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrinePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
Howard’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 4°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Howard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 17°04′ (moves 0.37° 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.
♡ ErosAries 10°08′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Howard is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.12° 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 LilithSagittarius 14°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Howard leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.1°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Howard is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Howard Nemerov, 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 February 29, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Howard Nemerov, 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 Q429011, 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 Nemerov at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- 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 time was Howard Nemerov 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 Nemerov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 29, 1920 birth date.
- What was Howard Nemerov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 29, 1920 birth date.
- 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.
