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.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Tony
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ 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.
Score your own chart →Tony Auth at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt 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
Water HorseOpen 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
Life Path 1Front 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
- The tightest major aspect in Tony Auth's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tony Auth combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
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.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Tony’s chart
Stellium 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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Also born on May 7
- Eva Perón1919
- MrBeast1998
- J Balvin1985
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- Minji2004
- Scheana Shay1985
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Gessime YassineMoroccan footballer
- Robin RoefsDutch association football player (born 2003)
- Braxton BerriosAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Taurus Horse charts
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- Paul GeorgeAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
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- Jordan HawkinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Gilded Scholars
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- Bea MillerAmerican singer
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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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 SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese 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.
