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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bernard sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Bernard DeVoto was born on January 11, 1897, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Bernard DeVoto's birth date, January 11, 1897, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Bernard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bernard DeVoto's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bernard DeVoto combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Bernard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bernard DeVoto, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° 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.
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.
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.
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
Bernard’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
Bernard’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.4° to 2.8° orb
Bernard’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.5° to 4.7° orb
Bernard’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareMars5.5° to 6.7° orb
Bernard’s affections grind against their drive.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.0° orb
Bernard’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
Bernard’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°10′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Bernard carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 2°17′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Bernard looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 26°49′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Bernard is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAries 27°09′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Bernard feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Bernard is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 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.
T-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 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.
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bernard DeVoto, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Bernard’s cards
Every card is computed from January 11, 1897, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Bernard DeVoto, 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 Q3638666, 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.
The same Bernard DeVoto 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Bernard DeVoto 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 DeVoto's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 11, 1897 birth date.
- What was Bernard DeVoto's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 11, 1897 birth date.
- 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.
