Karel Husa
Karel Husa (born August 7, 1921, Prague, Czech Republic; died 2016), was a Czech-born American conductor and composer. Husa is best remembered for Al Fresco for Concert Band, Apotheosis of this Earth and Music for Prague 1968. Husa's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Czech Medal of Merit and Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Karel Husa’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Karel Husa’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~1,814
Americans share it since 1880
1939
its peak year
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Karel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Karel, according to the stars
Core essence
Karel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Karel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Karel wants to be loved
Karel 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. Karel gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Karel creates
How Karel makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Karel creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Karel is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Karel is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Karel leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Karel fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Karel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Karel Husa in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Karel Husa's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Karel Husa was born on August 7, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Karel Husa's birth date, August 7, 1921, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Karel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karel Husa's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Karel Husa combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Karel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Karel Husa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
Karel’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrinePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Karel’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb
Karel’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.5° to 4.6° orb
Karel’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.8° orb
Karel’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.6° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 2.9° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 5.1° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Karel’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°47′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Karel may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 24°10′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Karel is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 29°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Karel is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Karel is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Karel at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.6°
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°).
Karel’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Karel is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Karel’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.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
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.
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Karel Husa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Karel’s cards
Every card is computed from August 7, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Karel Husa, 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
Karel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1729163, 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.
Portrait by United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karel Husa at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Karel Husa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karel Husa?
- Karel Husa was a Leo: born August 7, 1921, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- What was Karel Husa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1921 birth.
- What time was Karel Husa 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 Karel Husa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 7, 1921 birth date.
- What was Karel Husa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 7, 1921 birth date.
- Where was Karel Husa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karel Husa's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
