Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924, Chicago, United States; died 2023), was an American lyricist and songwriter. Harnick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Sheldon Harnick’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Sheldon
Sheldon Harnick’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sheldon in the U.S.?
#2788
US rank in 2025
~37,172
Americans share it since 1881
1992
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1924, Sheldon came 329th, carried by 311 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sheldon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) 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
Sheldon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
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 1924, 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 Sheldon apart
Sheldon Harnick took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1960, at 36.
Carl Schurz High School and Bienen School of Music shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1949, at 25.
On the family side, Sheldon Harnick was married Elaine May.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Sheldon Harnick: Bienen School of Music alumni, Carl Schurz High School alumni and Songwriters from Illinois.
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carl Schurz High School and Bienen School of Music
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1960), Tony Award for Best Original Score (1965) and Special Tony Award (2016)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score
- Working from
- 1949
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Sheldon, according to the stars
Core essence
Sheldon is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Sheldon is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Sheldon wants to be loved
Sheldon wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Sheldon like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Sheldon creates
How Sheldon makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Sheldon creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Sheldon 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sheldon 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Sheldon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Sheldon's birth date. Working below.
Where Sheldon sits
Six lines
Sheldon’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 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 Sheldon Harnick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sheldon Harnick: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sheldon's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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 →Sheldon Harnick at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Sheldon Harnick's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Sheldon Harnick was born on April 30, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Sheldon Harnick's birth date, April 30, 1924, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Sheldon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sheldon Harnick's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sheldon Harnick combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Sheldon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Sheldon’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.4° to 0.7° orb
Sheldon’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.2° to 1.4° orb
Sheldon’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.0° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.9° to 6.8° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.3° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 6.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.6° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sheldon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 21°41′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 8°47′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 19°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 22°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.8°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.7°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
Sheldon’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Sheldon’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Jupiter, 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-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
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- Jordon RileyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Dion DawkinsAmerican football player (born 1994)
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Born in Rat years
- Donovan MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Sam MerrillAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Terance MannAmerican basketball player
Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
- Ana de Armas1988
- Travis Scott1991
- Jane Campion1954
- Kunal Nayyar1981
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- Russel B. NyeAmerican academic
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
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- Cheryl BurkeAmerican dancer
Other Steadfast Architects
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- Lloyd CushenberryAmerican football player (born 1997)
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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- Jonathan AllenAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Sheldon’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sheldon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2354471 (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 Rarmin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sheldon Harnick 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 Sheldon Harnick.
Quick answers about Sheldon Harnick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sheldon Harnick?
- Sheldon Harnick was a Taurus: born April 30, 1924, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Sheldon Harnick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1924 birth.
- What was Sheldon Harnick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sheldon Harnick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sheldon Harnick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sheldon Harnick's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
