Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931, New York City, United States; died 2019), was an American composer and lyricist. Herman's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Jerry Herman’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jerry
Jerry Herman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jerry in the U.S.?
#907
US rank in 2025
~632,416
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1931, 4,371 American boys and 385 girls were registered Jerry — 43rd among boys and 324th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jerry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jerry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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 1931, 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 Jerry apart
The Tony Award for Best Musical came in 1964, when Jerry Herman was 33.
The schooling ran through Henry Snyder High School and Parsons School of Design.
Jerry Herman was 23 when the work began in 1954.
Cause of death is recorded as lung disease.
On Wikipedia the categories read Gay composers, Composers from New York City and American male musical theatre composers.
Alice Munro and Morris Chang shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Henry Snyder High School, Parsons School of Design and University of Miami
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Musical (1964), Tony Award for Best Original Score (1984) and Theatre World Special Award (1999)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score and Tony Award for Best Musical
- Working from
- 1954
- Cause of death
- lung disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 24
What the chart says
Jerry, according to the stars
Core essence
Jerry feels the room before entering it. The core of Jerry is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jerry, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Jerry is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Jerry needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Jerry wants to be loved
Jerry wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jerry gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jerry creates
How Jerry makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jerry creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Jerry is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jerry 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jerry channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Jerry's birth date. Working below.
Where Jerry sits
Six lines
Jerry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Jerry Herman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 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 Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 75.8° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
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, 22% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lived in
- Miami Beach
Wikidata records Miami Beach as Jerry Herman's home, against New York City as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Miami, Miami-Dade County in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jerry Herman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jerry's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Uranus · No Air planets
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Jerry Herman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Jerry Herman was born on July 10, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Jerry Herman's birth date, July 10, 1931, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Jerry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jerry Herman's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jerry Herman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Jerry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Taurus 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
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.4° orb
Jerry’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Jerry’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 2.0° orb
Jerry’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileMars0.4° to 0.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSunsquareUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn2.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.3° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Jerry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 10°45′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 22°50′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°40′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.3°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
- Eros square Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.8°
Jerry’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jerry’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn 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 Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.5°
Born the same day as Jerry
2 other people here were born on July 10, 1931, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Jerry
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- Marion Williams1927
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- Dominick Argento1927
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Jerry’s cards
Computed from July 10, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jerry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1363692 (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 U.S. federal government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jerry Herman 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 Jerry Herman.
Quick answers about Jerry Herman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jerry Herman?
- Jerry Herman was a Cancer: born July 10, 1931, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Jerry Herman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1931 birth.
- What was Jerry Herman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jerry Herman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jerry Herman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jerry Herman's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
