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Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto (born January 11, 1897, Ogden, United States; died 1955), was an American historian and author. DeVoto's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Bernard DeVoto’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Bernard DeVoto’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

Bernard ranked 78th among boys and 1,574th among girls in 1897, the year of this birth, with 234 American boys and 5 girls on the register.

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

5

Soul Urge · freedom

3

Personality · bright, quick

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

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

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The record

What sets Bernard apart

Bernard DeVoto took the Bancroft Prize in 1948, at 51.

Training came by way of University of Utah and Harvard University.

On the family side, Bernard DeVoto was married Avis DeVoto.

Wikipedia's editors put Bernard DeVoto under Historians from Utah, Writers from Ogden, Utah and University of Utah alumni.

Siti Nurhaliza (1979) and Mary J. Blige (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Utah and Harvard University
Awards
Bancroft Prize (1948), Pulitzer Prize for History (1948) and National Book Award for Nonfiction (1953)
Nominated for
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
9

What the chart says

Bernard, according to the stars

Core essence

Bernard is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Bernard 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.

How Bernard wants to be loved

Bernard 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 Bernard, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Bernard creates

How Bernard makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Bernard creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Bernard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Bernard is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Bernard leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Bernard scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Bernard's birth date. Working below.

Where Bernard sits

Six lines

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

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 DeVoto

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

Bernard’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 84.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 76.6° 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 Ogden that night

Computed for 41.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Ogden at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ogden on any night.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 62% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Ogden, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1955.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bernard DeVoto: 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

58 / 100 · Unusual

1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Mars · No Fire planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Bernard DeVoto's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 11, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Bernard DeVoto was born on January 11, 1897, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Bernard DeVoto's birth date, January 11, 1897, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 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 25° to 7° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.1° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 21°54′☉21°Moon in Taurus · 1°30′☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 9°29′☿9°Venus in Pisces · 5°36′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 11°42′ · retrograde♂℞11°Jupiter in Virgo · 9°44′ · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Scorpio · 28°09′♄28°Uranus in Scorpio · 27°55′♅27°Neptune in Gemini · 18°03′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Gemini · 12°04′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Bernard’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Bernard’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurytrineMars2.0° to 2.4° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.4° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.2° to 13.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 12°10′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 2°17′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 26°49′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 27°09′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Uranus 1.1°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.7°

Bernard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Bernard’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, 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.

  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°

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Bernard’s cards

Computed from January 11, 1897. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bernard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3638666 (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.

The same Bernard DeVoto at Wikipedia.

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Quick answers about Bernard DeVoto’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bernard DeVoto?
Bernard DeVoto was a Capricorn: born January 11, 1897, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Bernard DeVoto's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 11, 1897 birth.
What was Bernard DeVoto's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Bernard DeVoto's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bernard DeVoto's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bernard DeVoto's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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