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Andrew C. McLaughlin

Andrew C. McLaughlin (born February 14, 1861, Beardstown, United States; died 1947), was an American historian. McLaughlin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.

Andrew C. McLaughlin’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Andrew C. McLaughlin’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#73

US rank in 2025

~1,334,415

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

No US figure exists for 1861 — the SSA series begins 19 years later. Andrew opened it at 24th, 644 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Andrew apart

Andrew C. McLaughlin took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1936, at 75.

University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan shaped the training.

Andrew C. McLaughlin was married Lois Thompson Angell and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Andrew C. McLaughlin under University of Michigan Law School alumni, People from Beardstown, Illinois and Historians from Illinois.

Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (1936)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Andrew, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrew is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Andrew is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Andrew runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Andrew needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Andrew wants to be loved

Andrew wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Andrew be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Andrew creates

How Andrew makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Andrew builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrew is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Andrew is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Andrew gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Andrew's birth date. Working below.

Where Andrew sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Andrew

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andrew

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Andrew

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andrew

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

PracticalVisionary
Andrew

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andrew

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over Beardstown that night

Computed for 40.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Beardstown at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 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.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Beardstown at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 24% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.

How unusual Andrew's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet

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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Andrew C. McLaughlin in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Andrew C. McLaughlin's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1861, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Andrew C. McLaughlin was born on February 14, 1861, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Andrew C. McLaughlin's birth date, February 14, 1861, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.9° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 26°06′☉26°Moon in Aries · 20°22′☽20°Mercury in Pisces · 7°22′☿7°Venus in Aquarius · 4°27′♀4°Mars in Aries · 28°01′♂28°Jupiter in Leo · 21°31′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Virgo · 6°56′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Gemini · 7°59′♅7°Neptune in Pisces · 27°52′♆27°Pluto in Taurus · 7°38′♇7°

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Andrew’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Andrew’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars6.2° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 10°32′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 7°21′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 19°58′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.0°
  • Eros trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Eros trine Saturn 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.5°

Andrew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Andrew’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 2.5°

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Andrew’s cards

Computed from February 14, 1861. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3616248 (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 Hinsdale, B.A., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrew C. McLaughlin at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andrew C. McLaughlin.

Quick answers about Andrew C. McLaughlin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Andrew C. McLaughlin?
Andrew C. McLaughlin was an Aquarius: born February 14, 1861, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Andrew C. McLaughlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1861 birth.
What was Andrew C. McLaughlin's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Andrew C. McLaughlin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Andrew C. McLaughlin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Andrew C. McLaughlin's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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