Allan Nevins
Allan Nevins (born May 20, 1890, Camp Point, United States; died 1971), was an American historian and journalist. Nevins's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Bancroft Prize.
Allan Nevins’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Allan
How common is the name Allan in the U.S.?
#1013
US rank in 2025
~96,711
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Allan ranked 282nd in 1890, the year of this birth, with 37 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Allan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Allan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Allan apart
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Allan, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Allan processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Allan needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Allan wants to be loved
Allan wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Allan like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Allan creates
How Allan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Allan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Allan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Allan is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Allan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Allan's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Camp Point that night
Computed for 40.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Camp Point at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 1.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
How unusual Allan's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · No Water planets · 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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Taurus or Gemini Sun
Allan Nevins was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerCourage before caution.
Allan Nevins was born on May 20, 1890, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Allan Nevins's birth date, May 20, 1890, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Allan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Allan Nevins' date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Seven of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
Allan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Allan’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 6.6° orb
Allan’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.6° to 0.8° orb
Allan’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.1° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air7 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Allan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 18°57′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°13′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 6°26′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 28°39′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.3°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.4°
Allan’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Allan’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree 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 biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.4°
More people like Allan
Other historians
Born in United States
- Daniel R. FitzpatrickAmerican cartoonist
- Katherine Anne PorterAmerican journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
- Sidney HowardAmerican playwright
- Edward ArnoldAmerican actor
- Esther Forbesnovelist
- Adolphe MenjouAmerican actor
More charts like Allan’s
Born in Tiger years
- Nathan MilsteinAmerican musician
- Garth BrooksAmerican country music singer and songwriter
- Manuel NeuerGerman association football player (born 1986)
Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
- José Mujica1935
- Petr Čech1982
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Cindy McCain1954
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Nico WilliamsSpanish footballer
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- Emma NavarroUS American tennis player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- John KeyPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
- Diego CostaBrazilian association football player
- Shawn MendesCanadian singer
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Allan’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1890. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Allan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3380712 (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 Allan Nevins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Allan Nevins.
Quick answers about Allan Nevins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Allan Nevins?
- Allan Nevins was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Allan Nevins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1890 birth.
- What was Allan Nevins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Allan Nevins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Allan Nevins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Allan Nevins's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
