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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Justin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Justin sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Justin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Justin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Justin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Justin

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Justin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Justin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Capricorn Sun

Working 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Fire Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Justin Harvey Smith was born on January 13, 1857, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Justin Harvey Smith's birth date, January 13, 1857, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Justin’s chart

Justin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Justin Harvey Smith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.2° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.5° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 4.6° orbSun in Capricorn · 23°32′23°Moon in Virgo · 3°50′Mercury in Aquarius · 12°06′12°Venus in Pisces · 5°32′Mars in Aquarius · 29°11′29°Jupiter in Aries · 3°21′Saturn in Cancer · 9°44′ · retrogradeUranus in Taurus · 21°07′ · retrograde21°Neptune in Pisces · 18°15′18°Pluto in Taurus · 3°41′ · retrograde

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.

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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.

  • 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

    Justin’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune2.9° orb

    Justin’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.8° orb

    Justin’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.1° to 4.9° orb

    Justin’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.1° to 6.5° orb

    Justin’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° to 6.5° orb

    Justin’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironAquarius 5°05′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Justin making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresVirgo 1°26′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Justin caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ErosGemini 6°18′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Justin is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • HygieaPisces 6°29′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Justin needing solitude to reset.

  • Black Moon LilithLibra 26°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Justin that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Justin’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. 1. Venus6 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Uranus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Justin is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Justin’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Justin Harvey Smith, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Justin’s cards

Every card is computed from January 13, 1857, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yang Fire

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Justin Harvey Smith, 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

Justin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3811584, 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.

The same Justin Harvey Smith at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
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 time was Justin Harvey Smith 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 Justin Harvey Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 13, 1857 birth date.
What was Justin Harvey Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 13, 1857 birth date.
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.

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