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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Anne Applebaum, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aquarius 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
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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.
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
Anne’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
Anne’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.5° orb
Anne’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 6.0° orb
Anne’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.5° to 7.0° orb
Anne’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb
Anne’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°17′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Anne absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 23°58′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Anne is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 13°35′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Anne loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°51′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Anne needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Anne leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Anne’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
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Anne 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 Anne’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anne Applebaum, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Anne’s cards
Every card is computed from July 25, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Anne Applebaum, 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
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233479, 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 Mateusz Skwarczek (cropped by Oeleau), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anne Applebaum at Wikipedia, anneapplebaum.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Anne Applebaum 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 is Anne Applebaum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 25, 1964 birth date.
- What is Anne Applebaum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 25, 1964 birth date.
- 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.
