Oliver La Farge
Oliver La Farge (born December 19, 1901, New York City, United States; died 1963), was an American novelist, anthropologist. Farge is best remembered for A Pictorial History of the American Indian, Santa Fe: the autobiography of a southwestern town and Laughing Boy. Farge's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Oliver La Farge’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Oliver
Oliver La Farge’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Oliver in the U.S.?
#3
US rank in 2025
~270,680
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
In 1901, 187 American boys were registered Oliver — 92nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Oliver’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Oliver’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Oliver apart
Jake Gyllenhaal (1980) and Alexis Sánchez (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Oliver, according to the stars
Core essence
Oliver is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Oliver is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Oliver runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Oliver needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Oliver wants to be loved
Oliver wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Oliver be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Oliver creates
How Oliver makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Oliver 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: Oliver is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Oliver is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Oliver does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Oliver's birth date. Working below.
Where Oliver sits
Six lines
Oliver’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Oliver La Farge
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.9° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 64% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Oliver's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Oliver La Farge's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Ox
Metal OxSlow, steady, never quits.
Oliver La Farge was born on December 19, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Oliver La Farge's birth date, December 19, 1901, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Oliver’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Oliver La Farge's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Oliver La Farge combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Oliver’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Aries 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
stableUranusoppositionPluto0.2° orb
Oliver’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb
Oliver’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.1° to 2.6° orb
Oliver’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.2° to 2.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.3° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Oliver’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 6°14′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 27°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°34′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 23°26′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.5°
Oliver’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Oliver’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.1°
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on December 19
- Jake Gyllenhaal1980
- Alexis Sánchez1988
- Alyssa Milano1972
- Abigail Johnson1961
- Maurice White1941
- Ramsey Nouah1970
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Loren JenkinsAmerican war correspondent
- Gilbert KingAmerican journalist, writer and photographer
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
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Other Gilded Healers
- Soufiane RahimiMoroccan footballer
- Pathé CissSenegalese footballer
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Famous people with Life Path 6
- Elizabeth McGovernAmerican actress
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Oliver’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1901. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Oliver’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q761453 (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 Oliver La Farge 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 Oliver La Farge.
Quick answers about Oliver La Farge’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Oliver La Farge?
- Oliver La Farge was a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1901, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Oliver La Farge's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1901 birth.
- What was Oliver La Farge's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Oliver La Farge's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Oliver La Farge's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Oliver La Farge's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
