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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn (born September 10, 1922, Hartford, United States; died 2020), was an American historian. Bailyn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award and Bancroft Prize.

Bernard Bailyn’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Bernard Bailyn’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#1362

US rank in 2025

~201,070

Americans share it since 1880

1924

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1922, Bernard came 46th among boys and 1,689th among girls, carried by 4,409 American boys and 25 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bernard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on B (2) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Bernard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1922, 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 Bernard apart

Bernard Bailyn took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1968, at 46.

Training came by way of Williams College and Harvard University.

Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

On the family side, Bernard Bailyn was married Lotte Bailyn.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Bernard Bailyn: Historians of political thought, Quadrant (magazine) people and Writers from Hartford, Connecticut.

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

Educated at
Williams College and Harvard University
Awards
National Book Award (1975), Pulitzer Prize for History (1968) and Bancroft Prize (1968)
Nominated for
Pulitzer Prize for History
Cause of death
heart failure
Buried at
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
19

What the chart says

Bernard, according to the stars

Core essence

Bernard 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 Bernard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Bernard wants to be loved

Bernard 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 Bernard even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Bernard creates

How Bernard makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Bernard creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Bernard 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Bernard is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Bernard has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Bernard's birth date. Working below.

Where Bernard sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Bernard

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bernard

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

PrivateExpressive
Bernard

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bernard

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

PracticalVisionary
Bernard

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bernard

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Bernard’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 85.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 10.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Hartford that night

Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hartford on any night.

Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 81% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Hartford, United States

The death is recorded at Belmont, Middlesex County in 2020.

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

How unusual Bernard's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Bernard Bailyn's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Bernard Bailyn was born on September 10, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Bernard Bailyn's birth date, September 10, 1922, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Bernard’s chart

Bernard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.4° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.8° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.9° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 5° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 5.8° orbSun in Virgo · 17°08′☉17°Moon in Taurus · 4°17′☽4°Mercury in Libra · 11°49′☿11°Venus in Scorpio · 3°24′♀3°Mars in Sagittarius · 28°26′♂28°Jupiter in Libra · 20°14′♃20°Saturn in Libra · 7°46′♄7°Uranus in Pisces · 11°23′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Leo · 16°52′♆16°Pluto in Cancer · 11°01′♇11°

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

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Bernard’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.4° orb

    Bernard’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranustrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Bernard’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.8° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 5.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussextileMarsorb from 4.7° to 5.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 15°43′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 1°28′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 10°34′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.8°
  • Ceres square Neptune 1.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.8°

Bernard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Bernard’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°

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Bernard’s cards

Computed from September 10, 1922. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bernard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q822286 (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 Brown University, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bernard Bailyn.

Quick answers about Bernard Bailyn’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bernard Bailyn?
Bernard Bailyn was a Virgo: born September 10, 1922, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Bernard Bailyn's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1922 birth.
What was Bernard Bailyn's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Bernard Bailyn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bernard Bailyn's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bernard Bailyn's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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