Howard Sackler
Howard Sackler (born December 19, 1929, Brooklyn, United States; died 1982), was an American screenwriter. Sackler's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Howard Sackler’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Sackler’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth 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
In 1929, 6,010 American boys and 46 girls were registered Howard — 31st among boys and 1,083rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Howard apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1969, when Howard Sackler was 40.
Study took Howard Sackler to Brooklyn College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Brooklyn College alumni, Writers from Brooklyn and Dramatists and playwrights from New York City.
Jake Gyllenhaal (1980) and Alexis Sánchez (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Brooklyn College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1969)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Howard, according to the stars
Core essence
Howard is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Howard is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Howard needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Howard needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Howard and watch them fall for you again.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Howard has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Sackler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
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 Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Ibiza in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Howard Sackler: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Howard Sackler's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Howard Sackler was born on December 19, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Howard Sackler's birth date, December 19, 1929, 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 Sackler's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Howard Sackler combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Howard’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.3° to 2.9° orb
Howard’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb
Howard’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.5° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.2° to 6.8° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.7° to 7.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Howard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 8°36′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°30′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 4°12′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 23°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.9°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Howard’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
More people like Howard
Other screenwriters
- Fred Rogers1928
- Anne Bancroft1931
- Ingrid Thulin1929
- Harold Pinter1930
- Edward Albee1928
- Bob Shaw1931
Born in United States
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- Stephen SondheimAmerican composer and lyricist
- Grace KellyAmerican actress and Princess consort of Monaco
- Tippi HedrenAmerican actress, model and activist
- Murray Gell-MannAmerican physicist
- Jerome Isaac FriedmanAmerican physicist
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on December 19
- Jake Gyllenhaal1980
- Alexis Sánchez1988
- Alyssa Milano1972
- Abigail Johnson1961
- Maurice White1941
- Ramsey Nouah1970
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- David NjokuAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Gary Jennings Jr.American football player (born 1997)
- Troy DyeAmerican football linebacker
Other Sagittarius Snake charts
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- Billie EilishAmerican singer-songwriter
- Nancy MaceAmerican politician (born 1977)
- Steve AokiAmerican DJ and music producer (born 1971)
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Lamar JacksonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Caleb RogersAmerican football player
- A. J. DillonAmerican football player
- Kevin DotsonAmerican football offensive guard
Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Howard’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1553934 (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 United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Sackler 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 Sackler.
Quick answers about Howard Sackler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Howard Sackler?
- Howard Sackler was a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1929, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Howard Sackler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1929 birth.
- What was Howard Sackler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Howard Sackler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Howard Sackler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Howard Sackler's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
