Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard (born June 26, 1891, Oakland, United States; died 1939), was an American playwright. Howard's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Sidney Howard’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Sidney Howard’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sidney in the U.S.?
#1327
US rank in 2025
~108,987
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Sidney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sidney, according to the stars
Core essence
Sidney feels the room before entering it. The core of Sidney is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Sidney, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Sidney wants to be loved
Sidney 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 Sidney like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Sidney creates
How Sidney makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Sidney 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: Sidney 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 6 is the nurturer. Sidney is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sidney does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Sidney's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sidney sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Sidney Howard in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Sidney Howard's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 26, 1891, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Sidney Howard was born on June 26, 1891, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Sidney Howard's birth date, June 26, 1891, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Sidney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sidney Howard's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sidney Howard combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Sidney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sidney Howard, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aquarius or 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.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Sidney’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.4° orb
Sidney’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.3° to 3.0° orb
Sidney’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.9° to 3.5° orb
Sidney’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.7° to 5.7° orb
Sidney’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.8° to 5.0° orb
Sidney’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.9° to 5.8° orb
Sidney’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° orb
Sidney’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb
Sidney’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Sidney’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.9° to 6.1° orb
Sidney’s affections grind against their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.8° orb
Sidney’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Sidney’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 3°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Sidney performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 2°50′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Sidney is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 11°04′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Sidney is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°42′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Sidney is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 17°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Sidney exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Eros square Venus 1.3°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
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°).
Sidney’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sidney 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 Sidney’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.
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree 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 Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sidney Howard, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sidney’s cards
Every card is computed from June 26, 1891, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sidney Howard, 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
Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1132960, 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 Muray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sidney Howard 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.
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Quick answers about Sidney Howard’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sidney Howard?
- Sidney Howard was a Cancer: born June 26, 1891, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit.
- What was Sidney Howard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 26, 1891 birth.
- What time was Sidney Howard 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 Sidney Howard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 26, 1891 birth date.
- What was Sidney Howard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 26, 1891 birth date.
- Where was Sidney Howard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sidney Howard's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
