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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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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.

How common is the name Karel in the U.S.?

#12966

US rank in 2025

~1,814

Americans share it since 1916

1939

its peak year

Karel is in US records from 1916, but 1921 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1939.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Karel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Karel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Karel apart

Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Karel sits

Six lines

Karel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Karel

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Karel

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

PrivateExpressive
Karel

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Karel

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

PracticalVisionary
Karel

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Karel

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Karel Husa

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

Karel’s birth-night reference starEltaninwarm orange · DracoEltanin, in Draco. A warm orange star, 88.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Eltanin →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 10.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Prague that night

Computed for 50.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Prague was Eltanin, in Draco, 88.3° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 50.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Prague at all: they sit past the −39.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 22% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.

How unusual Karel's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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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Karel Husa in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Warm, 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.

What Leo means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Karel Husa was born on August 7, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Karel Husa's birth date, August 7, 1921, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Karel’s chart

Karel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 2.8° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.1° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.4° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.5° orbSun in Leo · 14°22′☉14°Moon in Libra · 4°52′☽4°Mercury in Cancer · 28°30′☿28°Venus in Cancer · 2°03′♀2°Mars in Leo · 2°35′♂2°Jupiter in Virgo · 19°38′♃19°Saturn in Virgo · 22°40′♄22°Uranus in Pisces · 8°35′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Leo · 13°31′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 9°19′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.8° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°47′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 24°10′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 29°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Karel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Karel’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars biquintile Uranus 0.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.4°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Karel’s cards

Computed from August 7, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Karel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1729163 (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 United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Karel Husa 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 Karel Husa.

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.
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 was Karel Husa's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Karel Husa's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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