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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ira sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ira Gershwin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Capricorn 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.
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
Ira’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.9° to 3.0° orb
Ira’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb
Ira’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 4.0° orb
Ira’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquarePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Ira’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.3° to 4.4° orb
Ira’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.7° orb
Ira’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb
Ira’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunoppositionMars5.7° to 7.1° orb
Ira’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Ira carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 24°22′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ira is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 5°45′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Ira is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 25°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Ira feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Ira carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.8°
- Ceres square Mars 2.8°
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°).
Ira’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ira 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 Ira’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.
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 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 quincunx Mars 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ira Gershwin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ira’s family here
One relative of Ira Gershwin also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Ira’s cards
Every card is computed from December 6, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ira Gershwin, 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
Ira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q61059, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ira Gershwin at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Ira Gershwin 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 Ira Gershwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 6, 1896 birth date.
- What was Ira Gershwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 6, 1896 birth date.
- 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.
