Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (born January 31, 1898, Yoakum, United States; died 1949), was an American journalist and author. Knickerbocker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Hubert
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Hubert in the U.S.?
#3400
US rank in 2025
~57,761
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1898, 114 American boys were registered Hubert — 149th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hubert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hubert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Hubert apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence came in 1931, when Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker was 33.
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker was taught at Southwestern University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The record gives aircraft crash as the cause, and Sewri Christian Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read War correspondents of the Spanish Civil War, Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1949 and Viennese interwar correspondents.
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Southwestern University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence (1931)
- Cause of death
- aircraft crash
- Buried at
- Sewri Christian Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Hubert, according to the stars
Core essence
Hubert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Hubert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Hubert wants to be loved
Hubert 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 Hubert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Hubert creates
How Hubert makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Hubert builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Hubert is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Hubert 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 Hubert 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 Hubert's birth date. Working below.
Where Hubert sits
Six lines
Hubert’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yoakum 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 Yoakum that night
Computed for 29.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Yoakum at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.0° above the horizon in Taurus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Yoakum sits at 29.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −60.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Yoakum on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 73% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Yoakum, United States
The death is recorded at Mumbai, Mumbai City district in 1949.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hubert's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Water planets
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 →Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1898, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker was born on January 31, 1898, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's birth date, January 31, 1898, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Hubert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Hubert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.1° to 0.2° orb
Hubert’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrinePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Hubert’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb
Hubert’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.2° to 2.3° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter1.3° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.9° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Hubert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 28°03′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 28°27′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°21′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 26°42′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 16°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Hubert’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Hubert’s chart
Kite · Sun, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.4°
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Hubert’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1898. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hubert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1633373 (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 UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker.
Quick answers about Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker?
- Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker was an Aquarius: born January 31, 1898, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1898 birth.
- What was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
