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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Burton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Burton 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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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. 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.
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. 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 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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Burton J. Hendrick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini 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.
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
Burton’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 3.2° orb
Burton’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.2° to 3.2° orb
Burton’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter2.4° to 4.1° orb
Burton’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
Burton’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.7° orb
Burton’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto3.3° to 3.7° orb
Burton’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.9° orb
Burton’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.8° orb
Burton’s affections grind against their drive.
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
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 ℞Aries 3°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Burton may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°23′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Burton caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosAries 2°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Burton is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°51′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Burton is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°48′ (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. Burton 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.
- 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°
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°).
Burton’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Burton 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 Burton’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.
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 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 Uranus 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Burton J. Hendrick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Burton’s cards
Every card is computed from December 8, 1870, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Burton J. Hendrick, 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
Burton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q523294, 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.
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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was Burton J. Hendrick 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 Burton J. Hendrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 8, 1870 birth date.
- What was Burton J. Hendrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 8, 1870 birth date.
- 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.
