Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson (born November 28, 1894, Melrose, United States; died 1984), was an American critic. Atkinson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Brooks Atkinson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Brooks
Brooks Atkinson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Brooks in the U.S.?
#64
US rank in 2025
~59,639
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1894, Brooks came 680th, carried by 10 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brooks’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on B (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Brooks’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Brooks apart
Anna Nicole Smith (1967) and Alan Ritchson (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Brooks, according to the stars
Core essence
Brooks is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Brooks is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Brooks is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Brooks needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Brooks wants to be loved
Brooks wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Brooks and watch them fall for you again.
How Brooks creates
How Brooks 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. Brooks 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: Brooks is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Brooks is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Brooks gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Brooks's birth date. Working below.
Where Brooks sits
Six lines
Brooks’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Brooks Atkinson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melrose on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Melrose that night
Computed for 42.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Melrose at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 1.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 52° below the horizon.
How unusual Brooks's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Brooks Atkinson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 28, 1894, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseOpen road, open heart.
Brooks Atkinson was born on November 28, 1894, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Brooks Atkinson's birth date, November 28, 1894, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Brooks’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brooks Atkinson's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brooks Atkinson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Brooks’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.4° orb
Brooks’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Brooks’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.6° orb
Brooks’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.7° to 1.9° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 1.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 4.5° to 16.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 4.8° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 6.2° to 18.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionNeptuneorb from 7.6° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Brooks’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 6°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 24°57′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°25′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°07′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.2°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.4°
Brooks’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Brooks’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 sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.7°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.3°
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Born in United States
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Born in Horse years
- Josh HartnettAmerican actor and producer
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- Vincent CasselFrench actor
Also born on November 28
- Anna Nicole Smith1967
- Alan Ritchson1982
- Trey Songz1984
- Colman Domingo1969
- Michael Bennet1964
- Ryan Kwanten1976
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Terry DubrowAmerican plastic surgeon and television personality
- Dustin DiamondAmerican actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian
- Paige DeSorboAmerican television personality (born 1992)
Other Sagittarius Horse charts
- Fred ArmisenAmerican comedian, actor and musician
- Clay AikenAmerican singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer
- Josh DallasAmerican actor
- Nelly FurtadoPortuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Hardik PandyaIndian cricketer
- Harry Brookcricketer (born 1999)
- Pierre GaslyFrench racing driver
- Min Woo LeeAustralian golfer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Chen-ning YangChinese physicist
- Idris ElbaBritish actor
- Melinda GatesAmerican philanthropist
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Brooks’s cards
Computed from November 28, 1894. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brooks’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343916 (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 Marjory Collins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brooks Atkinson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brooks Atkinson.
Quick answers about Brooks Atkinson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Brooks Atkinson?
- Brooks Atkinson was a Sagittarius: born November 28, 1894, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Brooks Atkinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 28, 1894 birth.
- What was Brooks Atkinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Brooks Atkinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Brooks Atkinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Brooks Atkinson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
