Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (born August 28, 1864, Bristol, United States; died 1960), was an American editor and biographer. Howe's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mark
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mark in the U.S.?
#245
US rank in 2025
~1,366,672
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
The earliest American count for Mark is 1880, 16 years on: 160th, 85 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mark’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Mark apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1925, when Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was 61.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was taught at Lehigh University and Harvard University.
On the family side, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was born to Eliza Howe and Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, married Fanny Quincy Howe and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe under DeWolf family, People from Cotuit, Massachusetts and Lehigh University alumni.
Jack Black (1969) and Shania Twain (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lehigh University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1925)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Mark, according to the stars
Core essence
Mark notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Mark is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mark and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Mark creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Mark 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mark 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 Mark leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Mark scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Mark's birth date. Working below.
Where Mark sits
Six lines
Mark’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bristol 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 Bristol that night
Computed for 41.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Bristol at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Bristol sits at 41.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bristol on any night.
The Moon, 9% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Mark's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1864, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Rat
Wood RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was born on August 28, 1864, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's birth date, August 28, 1864, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Mark’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's date-only chart is Mercury trine Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMercurytrineMars1.1° to 1.5° orb
Mark’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
Mark’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
Mark’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.3° to 7.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.8° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.2° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.5° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.4° to 15.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mark’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 12°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 25°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°47′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 21°17′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.2°
Mark’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mark’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.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.4°
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Mark’s cards
Computed from August 28, 1864. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6766577 (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 Madewh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe.
Quick answers about Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe?
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was a Virgo: born August 28, 1864, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1864 birth.
- What was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
