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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Andrew sits

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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.

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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Andrew C. McLaughlin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Venus in Aquarius · 4°27′Mars in Aries · 28°01′28°Jupiter in Leo · 21°31′ · retrograde21°Saturn in Virgo · 6°56′ · retrogradeUranus in Gemini · 7°59′Neptune in Pisces · 27°52′27°Pluto in Taurus · 7°38′

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.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Andrew’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Andrew’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb

    Andrew’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.8° orb

    Andrew’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.9° to 4.2° orb

    Andrew’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter4.0° to 5.1° orb

    Andrew’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb

    Andrew’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars6.2° to 6.7° orb

    Andrew’s affections grind against their drive.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Andrew making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Andrew feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Andrew is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Andrew is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Andrew carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Andrew’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. 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

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Andrew is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Andrew’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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Andrew C. McLaughlin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Andrew’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Andrew C. McLaughlin, 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

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3616248, 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.

Portrait by Hinsdale, B.A., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrew C. McLaughlin 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
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 time was Andrew C. McLaughlin 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 Andrew C. McLaughlin's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1861 birth date.
What was Andrew C. McLaughlin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1861 birth date.
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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