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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Annette
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
Of the names registered in 1958, Annette came 76th among girls and 2,095th among boys, carried by 6,134 American girls and 15 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Annette’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
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
Annette’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Annette apart
Annette Gordon-Reed took the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards in 2002, at 44.
Training came by way of Conroe High School and Dartmouth College.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Annette Gordon-Reed: Conroe High School alumni, People from Livingston, Texas and Academics from Texas.
Indira Gandhi (1917) and Jodie Foster (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Conroe High School, Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (2009), National Book Award (2008) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2009)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
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. Working below.
Where Annette sits
Six lines
Annette’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Annette Gordon-Reed
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Livingston 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 Livingston that night
Computed for 30.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Livingston at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 30.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 68% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Livingston, United States
- Lives in
- Upper West Side
Wikidata records Upper West Side as Annette Gordon-Reed's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Annette Gordon-Reed: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Annette's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Uranus · No Air planets
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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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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Pisces 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
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
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunoppositionMars3.6° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars5.5° to 7.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.1° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.0° to 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 23°01′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°58′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 20°06′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 0°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Annette’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Annette’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.0°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on November 19
- Indira Gandhi1917
- Jodie Foster1962
- Mette Frederiksen1977
- Ted Turner1938
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Annette’s cards
Computed from November 19, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Annette’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1247765 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Annette Gordon-Reed at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 is Annette Gordon-Reed's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Annette Gordon-Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
