Burton J. Hendrick
Burton J. Hendrick (born December 8, 1870, New Haven, United States; died 1949), was an American author and editor. Hendrick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Pulitzer Prize for History.
Burton J. Hendrick’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Burton
Burton J. Hendrick’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Burton in the U.S.?
#4419
US rank in 2025
~22,534
Americans share it since 1880
1925
its peak year
The earliest American count for Burton is 1880, 10 years on: 283rd, 34 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Burton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Burton apart
Burton J. Hendrick took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1921, at 51.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Burton J. Hendrick: Writers from New Haven, Connecticut, Progressive Era in the United States and American male biographers.
Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1923) and Pulitzer Prize for History (1921)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Burton, according to the stars
Core essence
Burton is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Burton 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, Burton processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Burton needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Burton wants to be loved
Burton 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 Burton and watch them fall for you again.
How Burton creates
How Burton makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Burton creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Burton 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Burton 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Burton channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Burton's birth date. Working below.
Where Burton sits
Six lines
Burton’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Burton J. Hendrick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Haven 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 New Haven that night
Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Haven was Almach, in Andromeda, 86.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.3°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 −48.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Burton's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Mars · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Burton J. Hendrick's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1870, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Burton J. Hendrick was born on December 8, 1870, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Burton J. Hendrick's birth date, December 8, 1870, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Burton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burton J. Hendrick's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Burton J. Hendrick combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Burton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Burton’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.5° orb
Burton’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.0° orb
Burton’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.8° to 1.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter2.4° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Burton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°23′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°51′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres square Venus 2.8°
- Ceres square Sun 2.9°
Burton’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 7 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Burton’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- 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.
- T-square onto Mars · Sun, 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 Uranus 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.8°
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Burton’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1870. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q523294 (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.
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Quick answers about Burton J. Hendrick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burton J. Hendrick?
- Burton J. Hendrick was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1870, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Burton J. Hendrick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1870 birth.
- What was Burton J. Hendrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burton J. Hendrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burton J. Hendrick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burton J. Hendrick's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 7 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
