Bray Hammond
Bray Hammond (born November 20, 1886, Springfield, United States; died 1968), was an American financial historian. Hammond is best remembered for Banks and Politics in America. Hammond's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bray Hammond’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dog, with 
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Bray Hammond’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bray in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~808
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
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Bray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Bray, according to the stars
Core essence
Bray does not do surface. The core of Bray is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Bray is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Bray is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Bray needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Bray wants to be loved
Bray 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 Bray even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Bray creates
How Bray makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Bray builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Bray 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Bray 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Bray does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Bray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bray sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Bray Hammond's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Dog
Fire DogWorries so you don't have to.
Bray Hammond was born on November 20, 1886, which falls in a Fire 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 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Bray Hammond's birth date, November 20, 1886, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Bray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bray Hammond's date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Bray Hammond combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Bray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bray Hammond, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Virgo 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.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.4° to 1.7° orb
Bray’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Bray’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.7° orb
Bray’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.8° to 3.1° orb
Bray’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
Bray’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.1° orb
Bray’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.3° to 5.3° orb
Bray’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.6° to 6.6° orb
Bray’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.8° orb
Bray’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 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.
Bray’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 ℞Gemini 22°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Bray turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Bray caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLeo 13°38′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Bray loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 16°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Bray is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°51′ (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. Bray 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.
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.7°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.7°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 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°).
Bray’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Bray is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Bray’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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bray Hammond, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Bray
Karl von Frisch was born on November 20, 1886 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Bray’s cards
Every card is computed from November 20, 1886, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bray Hammond, 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
Bray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4958517, 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 Bray Hammond 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 Bray Hammond.
Quick answers about Bray Hammond’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bray Hammond?
- Bray Hammond was a Scorpio: born November 20, 1886, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog.
- What was Bray Hammond's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1886 birth.
- What time was Bray Hammond 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 Bray Hammond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 20, 1886 birth date.
- What was Bray Hammond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 20, 1886 birth date.
- Where was Bray Hammond's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bray Hammond's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
