Porter Hall
Porter Hall (born September 19, 1888, Cincinnati, United States; died 1953), was an American actor.
Porter Hall’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Porter
Porter Hall’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Porter in the U.S.?
#560
US rank in 2025
~21,801
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
Porter ranked 295th in 1888, the year of this birth, with 37 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Porter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Porter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Porter apart
William Golding (1911) and Jimmy Fallon (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Porter, according to the stars
Core essence
Porter 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 Porter is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Porter 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 Porter 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 Porter wants to be loved
Porter wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Porter gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Porter creates
How Porter makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Porter creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Porter 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Porter is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Porter has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Porter's birth date. Working below.
Where Porter sits
Six lines
Porter’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 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 Porter Hall
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati that night
Computed for 39.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cincinnati at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 0.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 39.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cincinnati on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual Porter's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Water planets · A leaning bowl
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Porter Hall's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 19, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
Porter Hall was born on September 19, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Porter Hall's birth date, September 19, 1888, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Porter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Porter Hall's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Porter Hall combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Porter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Pisces 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
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Porter’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Porter’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Porter’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.4° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.2° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.7° to 0.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 5.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Porter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 10°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 20°46′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 16°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 27°10′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
Porter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Porter’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.
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
More people like Porter
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- Rudolf Klein-Rogge1885
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- James Farley1882
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Fellow Virgo suns
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- Arthur Holly ComptonAmerican physicist
- Frank Macfarlane BurnetAustralian virologist
Born in Rat years
- Gwyneth PaltrowAmerican actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer
- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer
- Lewis HamiltonBritish racing driver
Also born on September 19
- William Golding1911
- Jimmy Fallon1974
- Twiggy1949
- Halima Aden1997
- Rachel Sennott1995
- Zandra Rhodes1940
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Tristan VukčevićSerbian-Swedish basketball player
- Sviatoslav MykhailiukUkrainian basketball player (born 1997)
- AJ DybantsaAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Esteban OconFrench racing driver
- Phillip AlfordAmerican actor
- Jeremy IronsBritish actor (born 1948)
- Sarah RoemerAmerican actress
Other Tidal Storytellers
- Jordan PooleAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Jamal SheadAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Yu FukuzawaJapanese actor
- Iris ApatowAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Condoleezza RiceAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
- John BoltonAmerican lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)
- Chris Van HollenUnited States Senator from Maryland
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Porter’s cards
Computed from September 19, 1888. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Porter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3399241 (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 Photographer:DeForrest Studios, San Francisco., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Porter Hall 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 Porter Hall.
Quick answers about Porter Hall’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Porter Hall?
- Porter Hall was a Virgo: born September 19, 1888, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Porter Hall's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 19, 1888 birth.
- What was Porter Hall's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Porter Hall's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Porter Hall's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Porter Hall's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
