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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Ida
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
The earliest American count for Ida is 1880, 18 years on: 7th among girls and 712th among boys, 1,472 American girls and 8 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ida’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ida’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Ida apart
Will Ferrell (1967) and Margaret Court (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Ida sits
Six lines
Ida’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Ida B. Wells
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Holly Springs 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 Holly Springs that night
Computed for 34.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Holly Springs at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 13.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Holly Springs sits at 34.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Holly Springs at all: they sit past the −55.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 66% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Ida's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableMercurysquareMars1.4° to 1.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.7° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 16°57′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 27°13′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Venus 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
Ida’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ida’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on July 16
- Will Ferrell1967
- Margaret Court1942
- Wizkid1990
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- Corey Feldman1971
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Meg GreenfieldAmerican journalist
- Leonard BaconAmerican poet, translator, and literary critic
- Upton SinclairAmerican writer
Other Cancer Dog charts
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Other Gilded Pioneers
- Rupert GrintEnglish actor
- Mark WebberAustralian professional racing driver
- Stella McCartneyBritish fashion designer
- Diego LunaMexican actor
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Earl BoenAmerican actor
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Ida’s cards
Computed from July 16, 1862. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
22 · Master Builder☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ida’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q289428 (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 Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ida B. Wells at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ida B. Wells.
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.
- 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 was Ida B. Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ida B. Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
