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Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Holly Compton (born September 10, 1892, Wooster, United States; died 1962), was an American physicist. Compton is best remembered for Compton effect. Compton's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and Franklin Medal.

Arthur Holly Compton’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Arthur Holly Compton’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?

#87

US rank in 2025

~551,930

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Arthur ranked 14th among boys and 1,020th among girls in 1892, the year of this birth, with 1,768 American boys and 9 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Arthur’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Arthur apart

Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Arthur, according to the stars

Core essence

Arthur notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Arthur is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Arthur is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Arthur needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Arthur wants to be loved

Arthur wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Arthur openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Arthur creates

How Arthur 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. Arthur 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: Arthur 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Arthur is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Arthur goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Arthur's birth date. Working below.

Where Arthur sits

Six lines

Arthur’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Arthur

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Arthur

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Arthur

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Arthur

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Arthur

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Arthur

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wooster on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Arthur’s birth-night reference starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 19° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Wooster that night

Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wooster was Sadr, in Cygnus, 85.4° up.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 40.8°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 Wooster at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 25° below the horizon, Moon down and 77% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Arthur's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Arthur Holly Compton at a glance

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Arthur Holly Compton's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

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Water Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Arthur Holly Compton was born on September 10, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Arthur Holly Compton's birth date, September 10, 1892, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Arthur’s chart

Arthur’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3.6° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.8° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Virgo · 18°24′☉18°Moon in Taurus · 11°00′☽11°Mercury in Virgo · 0°32′☿0°Venus in Leo · 2°38′♀2°Mars in Aquarius · 7°24′♂7°Jupiter in Aries · 23°42′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Libra · 1°24′♄1°Uranus in Scorpio · 3°36′♅3°Neptune in Gemini · 11°19′♆11°Pluto in Gemini · 9°50′ · retrograde♇℞9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Arthur’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.8° to 1.6° orb

    Arthur’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.5° orb

    Arthur’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars4.4° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 26°23′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 0°35′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 23°42′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 0°48′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Jupiter 0.0°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 2.8°

Arthur’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Arthur’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Mars, 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.

  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.2°
  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.1°

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Arthur’s cards

Computed from September 10, 1892. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q127944 (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 Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Arthur Holly Compton at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Arthur Holly Compton.

Quick answers about Arthur Holly Compton’s chart

What zodiac sign was Arthur Holly Compton?
Arthur Holly Compton was a Virgo: born September 10, 1892, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Arthur Holly Compton's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1892 birth.
What was Arthur Holly Compton's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Arthur Holly Compton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Arthur Holly Compton's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Arthur Holly Compton's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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