Critic
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Signifying Monkey, and Finding Your Roots.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
- Born
- 1950-09-16, Keyser, USAA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1950-09-16, Keyser, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 23°12′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 23°52′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 24°32′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Virgo | 8°09′ | Direct |
| Mars | Scorpio | 23°42′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 29°49′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Virgo | 22°44′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 9°06′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 16°12′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 18°53′ | Direct |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.