Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (born December 6, 1896, Manhattan, United States; died 1983), was an American lyricist. Gershwin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Grammy Trustees Award and Congressional Gold Medal.
Ira Gershwin’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ira
Ira Gershwin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1896, Ira came 101st among boys and 540th among girls, carried by 190 American boys and 31 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ira’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Ira apart
Ira Gershwin took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1932, at 36.
City College of New York shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1910, at 14.
The grave is at Westchester Hills Cemetery.
Ira Gershwin was born to Rose Bruskina and Morris Gershwine and married Leonore Gershwin.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ira Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, American male lyricists and Gershwin family.
Geoffrey Hinton (1947) and Tim Cahill (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- City College of New York
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1932), Grammy Trustees Award (1986) and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1998)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1910
- Buried at
- Westchester Hills Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Ira, according to the stars
Core essence
Ira is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ira 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, Ira is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Ira needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Ira wants to be loved
Ira wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ira you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Ira creates
How Ira makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ira creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ira is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ira is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ira scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Gershwin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.5° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 1983.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ira Gershwin: 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
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars retrograde
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 Gershwin at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Ira Gershwin's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Ira Gershwin was born on December 6, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Ira Gershwin's birth date, December 6, 1896, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ira’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ira Gershwin's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ira Gershwin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Ira’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Capricorn 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Ira’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.0° to 3.0° orb
Ira’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.3° to 2.4° orb
Ira’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableSunoppositionMars5.7° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ira’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 24°22′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 5°45′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 25°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°35′ (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 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.8°
- Ceres square Mars 2.8°
Ira’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Ira’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn 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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.1°
Ira’s family here
One relative of Ira Gershwin also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Ira’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q61059 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ira Gershwin 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 Ira Gershwin.
Quick answers about Ira Gershwin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ira Gershwin?
- Ira Gershwin was a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1896, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Ira Gershwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1896 birth.
- What was Ira Gershwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ira Gershwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ira Gershwin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ira Gershwin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
