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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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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

Sidney ranked 124th among boys and 571st among girls in 1891, the year of this birth, with 113 American boys and 22 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sidney’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Sidney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Sidney apart

Sidney Howard took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925, at 34.

University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University shaped the training.

The grave is at Tyringham Cemetery.

Sidney Howard was born to Helen Louise Howard, married Clare Eames and Leopoldine Blaine Damrosch and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Sidney Howard under American satirical dramatists and playwrights, People from Tyringham, Massachusetts and Accidental deaths in Massachusetts.

Ariana Grande (1993) and Aubrey Plaza (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1925) and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (1940)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Buried at
Tyringham Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
26

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. Working below.

Where Sidney sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Sidney

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sidney

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

PrivateExpressive
Sidney

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sidney

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Sidney

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sidney

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

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Sidney’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 78.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oakland that night

Computed for 37.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Oakland at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.6° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oakland at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 70% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Oakland, United States
Lived in
Oakland

Wikidata records Oakland as Sidney Howard's home, Oakland among them.

The death is recorded at Tyringham, Berkshire County in 1939.

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

How unusual Sidney's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Venus · No Fire planets

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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Sidney Howard in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Moody, 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.

What Cancer means →

Metal Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Sidney Howard was born on June 26, 1891, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Sidney Howard's birth date, June 26, 1891, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Sidney’s chart

Sidney’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.4° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.2° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4° orbSun in Cancer · 4°52′☉4°Moon in Pisces · 6°21′☽6°Mercury in Gemini · 22°40′☿22°Venus in Gemini · 12°22′♀12°Mars in Cancer · 15°11′♂15°Jupiter in Pisces · 17°50′♃17°Saturn in Virgo · 12°01′♄12°Uranus in Libra · 27°20′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Gemini · 7°35′♆7°Pluto in Gemini · 8°00′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.9° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.8° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 3°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 2°50′

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 11°04′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°42′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 17°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Sidney’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Sidney’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°

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Sidney’s cards

Computed from June 26, 1891. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1132960 (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 Muray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.
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 was Sidney Howard's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Sidney Howard's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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