Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, United States; died 1931), was an American journalist and civil rights activist. Wells's honours include National Women's Hall of Fame, National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
Ida B. Wells’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Ida B. Wells’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Ida in the U.S.?
#1120
US rank in 2025
~188,695
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ida’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Ida, according to the stars
Core essence
Ida feels the room before entering it. The core of Ida is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ida, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Ida wants to be loved
Ida 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 Ida like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ida creates
How Ida makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ida creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ida 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Ida is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ida gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ida's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Ida B. Wells's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 1862, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Dog
Water DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Ida B. Wells's birth date, July 16, 1862, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Ida’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ida B. Wells' date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Ida B. Wells combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Ida’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ida B. Wells, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.0° orb
Ida’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Ida’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.5° to 1.6° orb
Ida’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.6° to 1.4° orb
Ida’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurysquareMars1.4° to 1.7° orb
Ida’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.6° to 2.1° orb
Ida’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
Ida’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
Ida’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
Ida’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
Ida’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.7° to 5.7° orb
Ida’s affections grind against their growth.
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ida’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Ida absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 16°57′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Ida is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 27°13′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Ida loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Ida needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Ida that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres trine Venus 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
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°).
Ida’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ida 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 Ida’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.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ida B. Wells, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ida’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1862, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ida B. Wells, 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
Ida’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q289428, 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.
Portrait by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ida B. Wells 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 Ida B. Wells’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ida B. Wells?
- Ida B. Wells was a Cancer: born July 16, 1862, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Ida B. Wells's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1862 birth.
- What time was Ida B. Wells 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 Ida B. Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1862 birth date.
- What was Ida B. Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1862 birth date.
- Where was Ida B. Wells's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ida B. Wells's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
