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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Bernard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bernard sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Bernard Bailyn

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 →

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.

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. 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 Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Bernard Bailyn was born on September 10, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Bernard’s chart

Bernard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Bernard Bailyn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Aries or 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.

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

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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.

  • 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

    Bernard’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb

    Bernard’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.5° to 4.6° orb

    Bernard’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb

    Bernard’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Bernard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Bernard is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

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

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Bernard is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

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

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Bernard is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Bernard is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Bernard’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. ☿ 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

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

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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

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

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Bernard’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Devil

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The Gilded Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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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

No birth time is on public record for Bernard Bailyn, 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

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

The same Bernard Bailyn 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
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 time was Bernard Bailyn 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 Bernard Bailyn's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 10, 1922 birth date.
What was Bernard Bailyn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 10, 1922 birth date.
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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