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Owen Davis

Owen Davis (born January 29, 1874, Portland, United States; died 1956), was an American dramatist. Davis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Owen Davis’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Owen Davis’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#31

US rank in 2025

~246,320

Americans share it since 1880

2016

its peak year

The earliest American count for Owen is 1880, 6 years on: 169th, 78 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Owen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on O (6) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Owen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Owen apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1923, when Owen Davis was 49.

Owen Davis was taught at Harvard University.

Owen Davis lies at Ferncliff Cemetery.

The family line: raised one child.

Wikipedia files Owen Davis under Dramatists and playwrights from Maine, Writers from Bangor, Maine and Screenwriters from Maine.

Oprah Winfrey (1954) and Olga Tokarczuk (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Harvard University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1923)
Buried at
Ferncliff Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
17

What the chart says

Owen, according to the stars

Core essence

Owen is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Owen 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Owen is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Owen needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Owen wants to be loved

Owen 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 Owen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Owen creates

How Owen 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. Owen 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: Owen is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Owen is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Owen 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 Owen's birth date. Working below.

Where Owen sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Owen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Owen

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Owen

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Owen

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

PracticalVisionary
Owen

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Owen

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Owen Davis

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland 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 Portland that night

Computed for 43.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.7° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Portland sits at 43.7°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 −46.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Portland, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1956.

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

How unusual Owen's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet

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

Ideas first, people second.

Owen Davis's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 29, 1874, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Owen Davis was born on January 29, 1874, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Owen Davis's birth date, January 29, 1874, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Owen’s chart

Owen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.6° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.2° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.3° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 9°41′☉9°Moon in Cancer · 7°14′☽7°Mercury in Aquarius · 6°12′☿6°Venus in Aquarius · 3°39′♀3°Mars in Pisces · 21°57′♂21°Jupiter in Libra · 1°30′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Aquarius · 5°38′♄5°Uranus in Leo · 8°28′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Aries · 25°56′♆25°Pluto in Taurus · 19°48′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Owen’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb

    Owen’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.4° to 3.1° orb

    Owen’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.5° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.9° to 5.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 14°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 8°33′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°10′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 23°12′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 29°41′ (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 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.9°

Owen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Owen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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-square Mars 0.8°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°

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Owen’s cards

Computed from January 29, 1874. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Owen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1321778 (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 Walter H. Baker Company, publisher; no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Owen Davis 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 Owen Davis.

Quick answers about Owen Davis’s chart

What zodiac sign was Owen Davis?
Owen Davis was an Aquarius: born January 29, 1874, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Owen Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 29, 1874 birth.
What was Owen Davis's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Owen Davis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Owen Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Owen Davis's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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