Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born July 25, 1964, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 62, is an American journalist and historian (born 1964). Applebaum is best known for Gulag: A History and Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Applebaum's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Duff Cooper Prize and Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association.
Anne Applebaum’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Anne
Anne Applebaum’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Anne in the U.S.?
#619
US rank in 2025
~325,954
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1964, Anne came 76th among girls and 2,041st among boys, carried by 5,411 American girls and 16 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (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
Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Anne apart
Rosalind Franklin (1920) and Matt LeBlanc (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Anne, according to the stars
Core essence
Anne is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Anne is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Anne needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Anne needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Anne wants to be loved
Anne 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 Anne like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Anne creates
How Anne makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Anne creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Anne is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Anne 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Anne scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Anne's birth date. Working below.
Where Anne sits
Six lines
Anne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Anne Applebaum
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 76.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°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 Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
How unusual Anne's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Anne Applebaum's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 25, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Anne Applebaum was born on July 25, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Anne Applebaum's birth date, July 25, 1964, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Anne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anne Applebaum's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Anne Applebaum combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Anne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aquarius 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.6° to 1.3° orb
Anne’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
Anne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.7° to 2.9° orb
Anne’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.5° to 7.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.9° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.8° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Anne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°17′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 23°58′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 13°35′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°51′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.3°
- Eros square Neptune 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.3°
- Ceres opposition Mars 2.6°
Anne’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Anne’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
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Also born on July 25
- Rosalind Franklin1920
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- Bobby BonesAmerican entertainer
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Anne’s cards
Computed from July 25, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233479 (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 Mateusz Skwarczek (cropped by Oeleau), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anne Applebaum.
Quick answers about Anne Applebaum’s chart
- How old is Anne Applebaum?
- Anne Applebaum is 62 years old, born July 25, 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Anne Applebaum?
- Anne Applebaum is a Leo: born July 25, 1964, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Anne Applebaum's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 25, 1964 birth.
- What is Anne Applebaum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Anne Applebaum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Anne Applebaum's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Anne Applebaum's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
