Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958, Livingston, United States), aged 67, is an American historian. Gordon-Reed's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Annette Gordon-Reed’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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Annette Gordon-Reed’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Annette in the U.S.?
#1443
US rank in 2025
~169,795
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Annette’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Annette, according to the stars
Core essence
Annette does not do surface. The core of Annette is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Annette is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Annette is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Annette needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Annette wants to be loved
Annette wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Annette even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Annette creates
How Annette makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Annette creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Annette is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Annette is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Annette is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Annette's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Annette Gordon-Reed's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 19, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Annette Gordon-Reed was born on November 19, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Annette Gordon-Reed's birth date, November 19, 1958, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Annette’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Annette Gordon-Reed's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Annette Gordon-Reed combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Annette’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Annette Gordon-Reed, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Pisces 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.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 7.0° orb
Annette’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.9° to 1.1° orb
Annette’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Annette’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.2° orb
Annette’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.1° orb
Annette’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionMars3.6° to 5.0° orb
Annette’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.8° orb
Annette’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 6.1° orb
Annette’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenusoppositionMars5.5° to 7.2° orb
Annette’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareUranus6.1° to 6.4° orb
Annette’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.0° to 7.6° orb
Annette’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Annette’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 17°56′ (moves 0.02° 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 Annette making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 23°01′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Annette is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosPisces 15°58′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Annette is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 20°06′ (moves 0.17° 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 Annette needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 0°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Annette is read as immovable on those points.
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 trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 3.0°
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°).
Annette’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. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Annette is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Annette’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 Scorpio · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Jupiter, 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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Annette Gordon-Reed, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Annette’s cards
Every card is computed from November 19, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Annette Gordon-Reed, 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
Annette’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1247765, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Annette Gordon-Reed’s chart
- How old is Annette Gordon-Reed?
- Annette Gordon-Reed is 67 years old, born November 19, 1958 in Livingston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Annette Gordon-Reed?
- Annette Gordon-Reed is a Scorpio: born November 19, 1958, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- What is Annette Gordon-Reed's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 19, 1958 birth.
- What time was Annette Gordon-Reed 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 Annette Gordon-Reed's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 19, 1958 birth date.
- What is Annette Gordon-Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 19, 1958 birth date.
- Where is Annette Gordon-Reed's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Annette Gordon-Reed's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
