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Tony Auth

Tony Auth (born May 7, 1942, Akron, United States; died 2014), was an American cartoonist. Auth's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and Herblock Prize.

Tony Auth’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Tony Auth’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#784

US rank in 2025

~254,483

Americans share it since 1880

1961

its peak year

In 1942, 1,408 American boys and 20 girls were registered Tony — 145th among boys and 1,975th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tony’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 T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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

Tony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

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 1942, 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 Tony apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning came in 1976, when Tony Auth was 34.

Tony Auth was taught at University of California, Los Angeles.

Cause of death is recorded as brain cancer.

On Wikipedia the categories read UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni, Artists from Akron, Ohio and The Philadelphia Inquirer people.

Eva Perón (1919) and MrBeast (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of California, Los Angeles
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1976) and Herblock Prize (2005)
Cause of death
brain cancer
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
6

What the chart says

Tony, according to the stars

Core essence

Tony 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 Tony 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Tony needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Tony needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Tony wants to be loved

Tony wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Tony creates

How Tony makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tony creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Tony 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Tony is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Tony leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Tony 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 Tony's birth date. Working below.

Where Tony sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Tony

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tony

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Tony

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tony

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

PracticalVisionary
Tony

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tony

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tony Auth

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Akron 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 Akron that night

Computed for 41.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Akron at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Akron sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Akron on any night.

Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon down and 44% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Akron, United States

The death is recorded at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County in 2014.

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

How unusual Tony's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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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Tony Auth at a glance

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Tony Auth's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Tony Auth was born on May 7, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Tony Auth's birth date, May 7, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Tony’s chart

Tony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Taurus · 16°27′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 18°26′☽18°Mercury in Gemini · 4°20′☿4°Venus in Aries · 1°42′♀1°Mars in Cancer · 6°58′♂6°Jupiter in Gemini · 22°38′♃22°Saturn in Taurus · 29°51′♄29°Uranus in Taurus · 29°34′♅29°Neptune in Virgo · 27°21′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 3°34′♇3°

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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.3° orb

    Tony’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenustrinePluto1.3° to 2.4° orb

    Tony’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.4° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.0° to 5.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 8°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 18°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 18°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 17°16′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
  • Eros square Sun 2.1°

Tony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Tony’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Tony’s cards

Computed from May 7, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7821790 (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 Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tony Auth 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 Tony Auth.

Quick answers about Tony Auth’s chart

What zodiac sign was Tony Auth?
Tony Auth was a Taurus: born May 7, 1942, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Tony Auth's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1942 birth.
What was Tony Auth's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Tony Auth's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Tony Auth's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Tony Auth's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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