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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Horse, with 
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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
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Brooks’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brooks sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Brooks Atkinson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Sagittarius 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.
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
Brooks’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.9° orb
Brooks’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
Brooks’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.5° orb
Brooks’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 6°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Brooks is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 24°57′ (moves 0.43° 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. Brooks is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°25′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Brooks is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°07′ (moves 0.42° 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. Brooks is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Brooks at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 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°
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°).
Brooks’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Brooks is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Brooks’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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brooks Atkinson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Brooks’s cards
Every card is computed from November 28, 1894, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Brooks Atkinson, 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
Brooks’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343916, 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 Marjory Collins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brooks Atkinson 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse.
- 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 time was Brooks Atkinson 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 Brooks Atkinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 28, 1894 birth date.
- What was Brooks Atkinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 28, 1894 birth date.
- 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.
