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Ira Wolfert

Ira Wolfert (born November 1, 1908, New York City, United States; died 1997), was an American journalist. Wolfert's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Ira Wolfert’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Ira Wolfert’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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

Ira ranked 130th among boys and 642nd among girls in 1908, the year of this birth, with 196 American boys and 36 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ira’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

7

Personality · composed, private

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

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Ira apart

Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ira, according to the stars

Core essence

Ira does not do surface. The core of Ira is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ira is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Ira needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Ira needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Ira wants to be loved

Ira wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ira and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Ira creates

How Ira makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ira creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ira is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Ira

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ira

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ira

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ira

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Ira

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ira

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ira’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 77.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 33.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon, 56% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.

How unusual Ira's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Ira Wolfert's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Ira Wolfert was born on November 1, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Ira Wolfert's birth date, November 1, 1908, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Ira’s chart

Ira’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 4.1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 8°53′☉8°Moon in Aquarius · 10°22′☽10°Mercury in Scorpio · 0°13′ · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Virgo · 27°55′♀27°Mars in Libra · 14°29′♂14°Jupiter in Virgo · 9°30′♃9°Saturn in Aries · 4°26′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Capricorn · 13°37′♅13°Neptune in Cancer · 17°05′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Gemini · 25°37′ · retrograde♇℞25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.2° to 1.0° orb

    Ira’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMarssquareUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb

    Ira’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.7° to 2.9° orb

    Ira’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.2° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.9° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.7° to 17.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 18°21′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 24°32′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 15°20′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.0°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.2°

Ira’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Ira’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, 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.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Ira’s cards

Computed from November 1, 1908. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6066318 (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 Wolfert at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ira Wolfert.

Quick answers about Ira Wolfert’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ira Wolfert?
Ira Wolfert was a Scorpio: born November 1, 1908, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Ira Wolfert's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1908 birth.
What was Ira Wolfert's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Ira Wolfert's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ira Wolfert's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ira Wolfert's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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