Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951, Manhattan, United States; died 2013), was an American novelist. Hijuelos is best remembered for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Hijuelos's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
Oscar Hijuelos’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Oscar
Oscar Hijuelos’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
Of the names registered in 1951, Oscar came 199th among boys and 4,708th among girls, carried by 1,067 American boys and 7 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Oscar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Oscar apart
What keeps Oscar Hijuelos in print: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
The classrooms behind this chart: City College of New York and Lehman College.
The working life starts in 1983, at 32.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
The same date carries Orson Scott Card. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Educated at
- City College of New York and Lehman College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1990)
- Working from
- 1983
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
What the chart says
Oscar, according to the stars
Core essence
Oscar 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 Oscar is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Oscar creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Oscar is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Oscar is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 Hijuelos
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Vega, in Lyra, 85.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
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 was at last quarter, 44% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual Oscar's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · Venus retrograde
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Oscar Hijuelos's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 24, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Oscar Hijuelos was born on August 24, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Oscar Hijuelos's birth date, August 24, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Oscar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Oscar Hijuelos' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Oscar Hijuelos combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Oscar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Oscar’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Oscar’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Oscar’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Oscar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°42′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 20°55′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 17°15′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.4°
Oscar’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Oscar’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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 semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Born the same day as Oscar
Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Virgo Rabbit charts
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Other Radiant Healers
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Oscar’s cards
Computed from August 24, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Oscar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q579475 (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.
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The same Oscar Hijuelos at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Oscar Hijuelos’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Oscar Hijuelos?
- Oscar Hijuelos was a Virgo: born August 24, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Oscar Hijuelos's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1951 birth.
- What was Oscar Hijuelos's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Oscar Hijuelos's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Oscar Hijuelos's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Oscar Hijuelos's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
