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Kenneth Silverman

Kenneth Silverman (born February 5, 1936, Manhattan, United States; died 2017), was an American biographer. Silverman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Kenneth Silverman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Kenneth Silverman’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#294

US rank in 2025

~1,289,312

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

In 1936, 12,486 American boys and 34 girls were registered Kenneth — 14th among boys and 1,238th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kenneth’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Kenneth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Ivory · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Kenneth apart

The Bancroft Prize came in 1985, when Kenneth Silverman was 49.

Study took Kenneth Silverman to Columbia University.

Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.

On Wikipedia the categories read Historians of magic (illusion), Edgar Allan Poe scholars and New York University faculty.

Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia University
Awards
Bancroft Prize (1985) and Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1985)
Cause of death
lung cancer
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
10

What the chart says

Kenneth, according to the stars

Core essence

Kenneth is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Kenneth is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Kenneth wants to be loved

Kenneth wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Kenneth you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Kenneth creates

How Kenneth makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kenneth creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Kenneth is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Kenneth 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Kenneth slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Kenneth's birth date. Working below.

Where Kenneth sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kenneth

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kenneth

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kenneth

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kenneth

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Kenneth

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kenneth

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Kenneth’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 85.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Manhattan that night

Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Manhattan, United States
Lived in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Kenneth Silverman's home, against Manhattan as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2017.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kenneth Silverman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kenneth's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Kenneth Silverman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Kenneth Silverman was born on February 5, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Kenneth Silverman's birth date, February 5, 1936, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Kenneth’s chart

Kenneth’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.6° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 6° orbSun in Aquarius · 15°44′☉15°Moon in Cancer · 25°35′☽25°Mercury in Aquarius · 5°26′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Capricorn · 9°53′♀9°Mars in Pisces · 17°16′♂17°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 18°29′♃18°Saturn in Pisces · 9°35′♄9°Uranus in Taurus · 1°51′♅1°Neptune in Virgo · 16°11′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 25°53′ · retrograde♇℞25°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 6.6° orb

    Kenneth’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Kenneth’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.5° orb

    Kenneth’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.2° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.7° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.4° to 14.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Kenneth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 10°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 22°41′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 12°29′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°47′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Saturn 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.3°
  • Eros square Venus 2.6°

Kenneth’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Kenneth’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.

  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

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Kenneth’s cards

Computed from February 5, 1936. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kenneth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1738912 (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 Kenneth Silverman at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kenneth Silverman.

Quick answers about Kenneth Silverman’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kenneth Silverman?
Kenneth Silverman was an Aquarius: born February 5, 1936, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Kenneth Silverman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1936 birth.
What was Kenneth Silverman's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Kenneth Silverman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Kenneth Silverman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kenneth Silverman's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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