Jerome Weidman
Jerome Weidman (born April 4, 1913, New York City, United States; died 1998), was an American writer. Weidman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Musical.
Jerome Weidman’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jerome
Jerome Weidman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jerome in the U.S.?
#1257
US rank in 2025
~162,296
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1913, Jerome came 141st among boys and 3,010th among girls, carried by 554 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jerome’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jerome’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Jerome apart
Jerome Weidman took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1960, at 47.
The classrooms behind this chart: DeWitt Clinton High School.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jerome Weidman: Novelists from New York City, Jewish American dramatists and playwrights and Writers from Manhattan.
Maya Angelou (1928) and Robert Downey Jr. (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1960) and Tony Award for Best Musical (1960)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Jerome, according to the stars
Core essence
Jerome leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Jerome is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Jerome is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Jerome needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Jerome wants to be loved
Jerome wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jerome is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Jerome creates
How Jerome makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jerome creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Jerome is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jerome is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Jerome slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Jerome's birth date. Working below.
Where Jerome sits
Six lines
Jerome’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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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.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jerome Weidman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jerome's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl · 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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Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Jerome Weidman's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Jerome Weidman was born on April 4, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Jerome Weidman's birth date, April 4, 1913, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Jerome’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jerome Weidman's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jerome Weidman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Jerome’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Jerome’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
Jerome’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.8° to 3.4° orb
Jerome’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.3° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jerome’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 12°47′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 1°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°23′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 18°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 2.3°
- Ceres square Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.9°
- Eros trine Jupiter 3.0°
Jerome’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jerome’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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
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- Hugh MasekelaSouth African jazz trumpeter
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on April 4
- Maya Angelou1928
- Robert Downey Jr.1965
- Heath Ledger1979
- Natasha Lyonne1979
- Jill Scott1972
- Eric André1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Lynne Spearsmother of Britney Spears
- Hillary ScottAmerican singer and songwriter
- Lark VoorhiesAmerican actress
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Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Eduard BuchnerGerman chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
- William IngeAmerican playwright and novelist
- Bill DedmanAmerican journalist
- Frank Luther MottAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 4
- James H. Patton Jr.American Kentucky poet laureate
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Jerome’s cards
Computed from April 4, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jerome’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1687760 (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 Jerome Weidman 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 Jerome Weidman.
Quick answers about Jerome Weidman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jerome Weidman?
- Jerome Weidman was an Aries: born April 4, 1913, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Jerome Weidman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1913 birth.
- What was Jerome Weidman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jerome Weidman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jerome Weidman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jerome Weidman's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
