Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II (born July 12, 1895, New York City, United States; died 1960), was an American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals. Hammerstein's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
Oscar Hammerstein II’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Oscar
Oscar Hammerstein II’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Oscar in the U.S.?
#223
US rank in 2025
~214,168
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
The SSA recorded 549 American boys named Oscar in 1895: 39th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Oscar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
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
Oscar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The record
What sets Oscar apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Oscar, according to the stars
Core essence
Oscar feels the room before entering it. The core of Oscar is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Oscar, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Oscar is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Oscar needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Oscar wants to be loved
Oscar 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 Oscar and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Oscar creates
How Oscar makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Oscar creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Oscar is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Oscar 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Oscar 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 Oscar's birth date. Working below.
Where Oscar sits
Six lines
Oscar’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Oscar Hammerstein II
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 15.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City 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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 70% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
How unusual Oscar's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Oscar Hammerstein II's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Oscar Hammerstein II's birth date, July 12, 1895, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Oscar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Oscar Hammerstein II's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Oscar Hammerstein II combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Oscar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Oscar’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 1.9° orb
Oscar’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.4° to 2.7° orb
Oscar’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.7° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.4° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.3° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Oscar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 4°20′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 0°25′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 7°20′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 28°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.9°
- Eros square Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.7°
Oscar’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Oscar’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
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Oscar’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Oscar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319693 (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 Z Arthur printed on photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Oscar Hammerstein II 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 Oscar Hammerstein II.
Quick answers about Oscar Hammerstein II’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Oscar Hammerstein II?
- Oscar Hammerstein II was a Cancer: born July 12, 1895, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Oscar Hammerstein II's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1895 birth.
- What was Oscar Hammerstein II's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Oscar Hammerstein II's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Oscar Hammerstein II's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Oscar Hammerstein II's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
