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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Metal Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Allan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Allan Nevins, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
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
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Allan’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.2° orb
Allan’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.3° to 2.6° orb
Allan’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.1° to 3.5° orb
Allan’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
Allan’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
Allan’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
Allan’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.8° orb
Allan’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.8° orb
Allan’s growth flows straight into their depths.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 18°57′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Allan is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°13′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Allan is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 6°26′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Allan is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaPisces 28°39′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Allan needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Allan is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Allan’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Allan is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Allan’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Allan Nevins, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Allan’s cards
Every card is computed from May 20, 1890, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Allan Nevins, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Allan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3380712, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Allan Nevins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger.
- 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 time was Allan Nevins born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Allan Nevins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1890 birth date.
- What was Allan Nevins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1890 birth date.
- 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.
