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Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane (born December 25, 1902, Columbia, United States; died 1969), was an Actor, playwright, screenwriter. MacLane's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Barton MacLane’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Barton MacLane’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#9018

US rank in 2025

~9,371

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

Barton ranked 941st in 1902, the year of this birth, with 7 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Barton’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Barton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Barton apart

Justin Trudeau (1971) and Adut Akech (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Barton, according to the stars

Core essence

Barton is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Barton is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Barton feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Barton needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Barton wants to be loved

Barton wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Barton you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Barton creates

How Barton makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Barton creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Barton is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Barton is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Barton fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Barton's birth date. Working below.

Where Barton sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Barton

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Barton

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Barton

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Barton

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Barton

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Barton

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbia 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 Columbia that night

Computed for 34.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Columbia at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Columbia at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

How unusual Barton's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Mars

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Barton MacLane's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 25, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Barton MacLane was born on December 25, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Barton MacLane's birth date, December 25, 1902, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Barton’s chart

Barton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.7° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.7° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 5.4° orbSun in Capricorn · 2°59′☉2°Moon in Scorpio · 17°26′☽17°Mercury in Capricorn · 10°31′☿10°Venus in Capricorn · 9°24′♀9°Mars in Libra · 2°26′♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 17°01′♃17°Saturn in Capricorn · 27°04′♄27°Uranus in Sagittarius · 22°10′♅22°Neptune in Cancer · 2°18′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Gemini · 18°25′ · retrograde♇℞18°

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

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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

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Barton’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.3° orb

    Barton’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.2° to 1.2° orb

    Barton’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.3° to 0.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.3° to 1.5° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.5° to 7.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury7.2° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.7° to 12.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 14°45′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 28°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 27°42′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 23°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Saturn 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.7°

Barton’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Barton’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Sun, Neptune, MarsAn 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.0°

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Barton’s cards

Computed from December 25, 1902. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Barton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q577621 (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 Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Barton MacLane at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barton MacLane.

Quick answers about Barton MacLane’s chart

What zodiac sign was Barton MacLane?
Barton MacLane was a Capricorn: born December 25, 1902, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Barton MacLane's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 25, 1902 birth.
What was Barton MacLane's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Barton MacLane's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Barton MacLane's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Barton MacLane's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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