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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Arthur sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Arthur Holly Compton

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Arthur’s chart

Arthur’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Arthur Holly Compton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Arthur’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb

    Arthur’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.8° orb

    Arthur’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° orb

    Arthur’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionMars4.4° to 5.2° orb

    Arthur’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn6.0° orb

    Arthur’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Arthur performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Arthur feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Arthur is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

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

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Arthur at their best with something to be proud of.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Arthur is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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 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°

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°).

Arthur’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Arthur 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 Arthur’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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arthur Holly Compton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Arthur’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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The Evergreen Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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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

No birth time is on public record for Arthur Holly Compton, 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

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

The same Arthur Holly Compton at Wikipedia.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
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 time was Arthur Holly Compton 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 was Arthur Holly Compton's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 10, 1892 birth date.
What was Arthur Holly Compton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 10, 1892 birth date.
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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