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Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley (born October 22, 1906, New York City, United States; died 1995), was an American writer. Kingsley's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Edgar Awards.

Sidney Kingsley’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Sidney Kingsley’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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

The SSA recorded 209 American boys and 16 girls named Sidney in 1906: 101st among boys and 957th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sidney’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

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 1906, 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 Sidney apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1934, when Sidney Kingsley was 28.

Sidney Kingsley was taught at Townsend Harris High School and Cornell University.

On the family side, Sidney Kingsley was married Madge Evans.

Wikipedia files Sidney Kingsley under People from Oakland, New Jersey, Screenwriters from New Jersey and Writers from Queens, New York.

Doris Lessing (1919) and Javier Milei (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Townsend Harris High School and Cornell University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1934) and Edgar Awards (1950)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
16

What the chart says

Sidney, according to the stars

Core essence

Sidney makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Sidney is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Sidney wants to be loved

Sidney wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Sidney and watch them fall for you again.

How Sidney creates

How Sidney 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. Sidney 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: Sidney is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Sidney is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Sidney channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sidney

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

PrivateExpressive
Sidney

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sidney

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Sidney

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sidney

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sidney Kingsley

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Pegasus.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Oakland, Bergen County in 1995.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sidney Kingsley: 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

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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 Kingsley in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Sidney Kingsley's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 22, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Sidney Kingsley was born on October 22, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Sidney Kingsley's birth date, October 22, 1906, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 26° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.7° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 4° orbSun in Libra · 28°23′☉28°Moon in Capricorn · 4°03′☽4°Mercury in Scorpio · 16°08′☿16°Venus in Sagittarius · 9°11′♀9°Mars in Virgo · 25°19′♂25°Jupiter in Cancer · 10°59′♃10°Saturn in Pisces · 8°41′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Capricorn · 5°07′♅5°Neptune in Cancer · 12°39′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Gemini · 23°38′ · retrograde♇℞23°

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

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.2° to 0.8° orb

    Sidney’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Sidney’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Sidney’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn2.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.4° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.5° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Sidney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 7°29′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 20°21′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 12°43′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.6°

Sidney’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Sidney’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.

  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.8°

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Sidney’s cards

Computed from October 22, 1906. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q984520 (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.

The same Sidney Kingsley 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 Sidney Kingsley.

Quick answers about Sidney Kingsley’s chart

What zodiac sign was Sidney Kingsley?
Sidney Kingsley was a Libra: born October 22, 1906, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Sidney Kingsley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 22, 1906 birth.
What was Sidney Kingsley's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Sidney Kingsley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Sidney Kingsley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Sidney Kingsley's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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