Ira B. Harkey Jr.
Ira B. Harkey Jr. (born January 15, 1918, New Orleans, United States; died 2006), was an American journalist. Harkey's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.
Ira B. Harkey Jr.’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ira
Ira B. Harkey Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ira in the U.S.?
#822
US rank in 2025
~62,535
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1918, 862 American boys and 73 girls were registered Ira — 163rd among boys and 846th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ira’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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 Ira apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing came in 1963, when Ira B. Harkey Jr. was 45.
Ira B. Harkey Jr. was taught at New Mexico Military Institute and Tulane University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Tulane University alumni, People from Pascagoula, Mississippi and Writers from New Orleans.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929) and Edward Teller (1908) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New Mexico Military Institute and Tulane University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1963) and The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism (1963)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Ira, according to the stars
Core essence
Ira is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ira is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Ira wants to be loved
Ira 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 Ira be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Ira creates
How Ira makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ira creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Ira 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ira is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ira fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ira's birth date. Working below.
Where Ira sits
Six lines
Ira’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Ira B. Harkey Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Orleans 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 New Orleans that night
Computed for 29.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over New Orleans at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.6° above the horizon in Taurus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
New Orleans sits at 30.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from New Orleans at all: they sit past the −60.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 14% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Orleans, United States
The death is recorded at Kerrville, Kerr County in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ira B. Harkey Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ira's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Mars · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Ira B. Harkey Jr. at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 15, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Ira B. Harkey Jr. was born on January 15, 1918, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s birth date, January 15, 1918, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Ira’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ira B. Harkey Jr. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Ira’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.4° to 0.6° orb
Ira’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.6° to 0.8° orb
Ira’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars2.6° orb
Ira’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.4° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.8° to 6.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ira’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°37′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 16°40′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°53′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.2°
Ira’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Ira’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.4°
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Ira’s cards
Computed from January 15, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16017418 (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.
The same Ira B. Harkey Jr. at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ira B. Harkey Jr..
Quick answers about Ira B. Harkey Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ira B. Harkey Jr.?
- Ira B. Harkey Jr. was a Capricorn: born January 15, 1918, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 15, 1918 birth.
- What was Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ira B. Harkey Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
