Justin Harvey Smith
Justin Harvey Smith (born January 13, 1857, Boscawen, United States; died 1930), was an American historian. Smith's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Justin Harvey Smith’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Justin
Justin Harvey Smith’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Justin in the U.S.?
#233
US rank in 2025
~794,273
Americans share it since 1880
1988
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1857 — the SSA series begins 23 years later. Justin opened it at 715th, 8 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Justin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Justin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Justin apart
The Pulitzer Prize for History came in 1920, when Justin Harvey Smith was 63.
Study took Justin Harvey Smith to Dartmouth College.
Justin Harvey Smith lies at Plains Cemetery.
The family line: born to Cynthia Maria Smith.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Boscawen, New Hampshire, American historians and Dartmouth College faculty.
Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Dartmouth College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1920)
- Buried at
- Plains Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Justin, according to the stars
Core essence
Justin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Justin is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Justin wants to be loved
Justin wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Justin, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Justin creates
How Justin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Justin creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Justin is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Justin is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Justin goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Justin's birth date. Working below.
Where Justin sits
Six lines
Justin’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Justin Harvey Smith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boscawen 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 Boscawen that night
Computed for 43.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Boscawen at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Boscawen sits at 43.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 86% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boscawen, United States
The death is recorded at Brooklyn, New York City in 1930.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Justin Harvey Smith: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Justin's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Justin Harvey Smith's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1857, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Justin Harvey Smith was born on January 13, 1857, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Justin Harvey Smith's birth date, January 13, 1857, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Justin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Justin Harvey Smith's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Justin Harvey Smith combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Justin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.4° orb
Justin’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.5° orb
Justin’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextilePluto1.3° to 2.4° orb
Justin’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssextilePluto4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.1° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.8° to 5.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Justin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°05′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 1°26′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 6°18′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 6°29′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres opposition Mars 2.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.8°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 3.0°
Justin’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Justin’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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.4°
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Justin’s cards
Computed from January 13, 1857. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Justin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3811584 (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 Justin Harvey Smith at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Justin Harvey Smith.
Quick answers about Justin Harvey Smith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Justin Harvey Smith?
- Justin Harvey Smith was a Capricorn: born January 13, 1857, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Justin Harvey Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1857 birth.
- What was Justin Harvey Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Justin Harvey Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Justin Harvey Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Justin Harvey Smith's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
