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Silas House

Silas House (born August 7, 1971, Laurel County, United States), aged 55, is an American writer. House has served as poet laureate. House's honours include Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize.

Silas House’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Silas House’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Silas in the U.S.?

#71

US rank in 2025

~75,649

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

In 1971, 73 American boys were registered Silas — 956th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Silas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

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

Silas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Silas apart

Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Silas, according to the stars

Core essence

Silas is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Silas is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Silas wants to be loved

Silas wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Silas openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Silas creates

How Silas makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Silas builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Silas is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Silas 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Silas 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 Silas's birth date. Working below.

Where Silas sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Silas

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Silas

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

PrivateExpressive
Silas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Silas

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

PracticalVisionary
Silas

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Silas

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Laurel County on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Silas’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 74.7° 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, 26.5° 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 Laurel County that night

Computed for 37.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Laurel County at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Laurel County sits at 37.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Laurel County at all: they sit past the −52.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 98% lit at full moon.

How unusual Silas's chart is

Chart pattern score

17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Mars retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Silas House's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Silas House was born on August 7, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Silas House's birth date, August 7, 1971, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Silas’s chart

Silas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.2° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Leo · 14°30′☉14°Moon in Aquarius · 25°59′☽25°Mercury in Virgo · 9°26′☿9°Venus in Leo · 8°58′♀8°Mars in Aquarius · 17°42′ · retrograde♂℞17°Jupiter in Scorpio · 26°53′♃26°Saturn in Gemini · 4°58′♄4°Uranus in Libra · 10°32′♅10°Neptune in Sagittarius · 0°18′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Virgo · 27°56′♇27°

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

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.0° to 2.2° orb

    Silas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.0° orb

    Silas’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb

    Silas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionMars2.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.4° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 13°29′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 17°37′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°48′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Sun 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.7°
  • Ceres square Uranus 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.9°

Silas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Silas’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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°

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Silas’s cards

Computed from August 7, 1971. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Silas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7514169 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Silas House at Wikipedia, silas-house.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Silas House.

Quick answers about Silas House’s chart

How old is Silas House?
Silas House is 55 years old, born August 7, 1971 in Laurel County, United States.
What zodiac sign is Silas House?
Silas House is a Leo: born August 7, 1971, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Silas House's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1971 birth.
What is Silas House's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Silas House's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Silas House's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Silas House's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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