Porter Hall
Porter Hall (born September 19, 1888, Cincinnati, United States; died 1953), was an American actor.
Porter Hall’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Porter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Porter sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cincinnati on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Porter Hall, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Porter’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.2° to 1.6° orb
Porter’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Porter’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.7° to 0.9° orb
Porter’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Porter’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.4° to 4.1° orb
Porter’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
Porter’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
Porter’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 5.0° orb
Porter’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 10°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Porter is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 20°46′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Porter is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLeo 16°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Porter loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 27°10′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Porter is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Porter is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Porter’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Porter is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Porter’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Porter Hall, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Porter’s cards
Every card is computed from September 19, 1888, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Porter Hall, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Porter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3399241, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- 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 time was Porter Hall born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Porter Hall's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 19, 1888 birth date.
- What was Porter Hall's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 19, 1888 birth date.
- 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.
