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Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Benjamin Lawrence Reid (born May 3, 1918, Louisville, United States; died 1990), was an American professor and author. Reid's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Fulbright Scholarship.

Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#11

US rank in 2025

~829,312

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,431 American boys named Benjamin in 1918: 79th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Benjamin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

22

Soul Urge · legacy

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (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

Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Benjamin apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1969, when Benjamin Lawrence Reid was 51.

Wikipedia files Benjamin Lawrence Reid under Fellows of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sweet Briar College faculty and Mount Holyoke College faculty.

Golda Meir (1898) and James Brown (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1969)
Nominated for
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Benjamin, according to the stars

Core essence

Benjamin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Benjamin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Benjamin needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Benjamin needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Benjamin wants to be loved

Benjamin wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Benjamin, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Benjamin creates

How Benjamin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Benjamin 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: Benjamin is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Benjamin is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Benjamin channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Benjamin's birth date. Working below.

Where Benjamin sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Benjamin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Benjamin

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

PrivateExpressive
Benjamin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Benjamin

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

PracticalVisionary
Benjamin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Benjamin

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

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

Benjamin’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 80.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Louisville that night

Computed for 38.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Louisville at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Louisville sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Louisville at all: they sit past the −51.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 49% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Louisville, United States

The death is recorded at South Hadley, Hampshire County in 1990.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Benjamin Lawrence Reid: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Benjamin's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl

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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Benjamin Lawrence Reid in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Benjamin Lawrence Reid was born on May 3, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Benjamin Lawrence Reid's birth date, May 3, 1918, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Benjamin’s chart

Benjamin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.4° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.3° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.9° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.7° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Taurus · 12°26′☉12°Moon in Aquarius · 9°32′☽9°Mercury in Taurus · 2°04′ · retrograde☿℞2°Venus in Pisces · 26°41′♀26°Mars in Virgo · 14°14′♂14°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°04′♃14°Saturn in Leo · 8°08′♄8°Uranus in Aquarius · 27°21′♅27°Neptune in Leo · 4°24′♆4°Pluto in Cancer · 3°50′♇3°

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

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Benjamin’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSuntrineMars1.4° to 2.2° orb

    Benjamin’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.5° to 2.0° orb

    Benjamin’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.1° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus4.5° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.8° to 6.3° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 1°49′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 27°56′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 3°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.6°

Benjamin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Benjamin’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°

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Benjamin’s cards

Computed from May 3, 1918. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65739687 (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 United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s chart

What zodiac sign was Benjamin Lawrence Reid?
Benjamin Lawrence Reid was a Taurus: born May 3, 1918, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1918 birth.
What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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