C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward (born November 13, 1908, Vanndale, United States; died 1999), was an American historian. Woodward's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Sterling Professor and Bancroft Prize.
C. Vann Woodward’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What C. Vann Woodward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
C. Vann Woodward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets C. Vann Woodward apart
The Bancroft Prize came in 1952, when C. Vann Woodward was 44.
Study took C. Vann Woodward to Henderson State University and Emory University.
Wikipedia files C. Vann Woodward under People from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Henderson State University alumni and Historians from Arkansas.
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Henderson State University, Emory University and Morrilton High School
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize (1952), Pulitzer Prize for History (1982) and Jefferson Lecture (1978)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Nonfiction and Pulitzer Prize for History
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
C. Vann Woodward, according to the stars
Core essence
C. Vann Woodward does not do surface. The core of C. Vann Woodward 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 C. Vann Woodward is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How C. Vann Woodward wants to be loved
C. Vann Woodward wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. C. Vann Woodward gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How C. Vann Woodward creates
How C. Vann Woodward makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. C. Vann Woodward creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: C. Vann Woodward is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. C. Vann Woodward is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. C. Vann Woodward fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from C. Vann Woodward's birth date. Working below.
Where C. Vann Woodward sits
Six lines
C. Vann Woodward’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to C. Vann Woodward
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vanndale 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 Vanndale that night
Computed for 35.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Vanndale at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Vanndale sits at 35.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 68% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vanndale, United States
The death is recorded at Hamden, South Central Connecticut Planning Region in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for C. Vann Woodward: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual C.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · 1 unaspected planet
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
C. Vann Woodward's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
C. Vann Woodward was born on November 13, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
C. Vann Woodward's birth date, November 13, 1908, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in C. Vann Woodward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in C. Vann Woodward's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- C. Vann Woodward combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
C. Vann Woodward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
stableVenussquareUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
C. Vann Woodward’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrinePluto2.8° to 3.5° orb
C. Vann Woodward’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
C. Vann Woodward’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.9° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.0° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.9° to 6.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.4° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
C. Vann Woodward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°29′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 29°36′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°35′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°34′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.2°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron square Sun 2.5°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.9°
C. Vann Woodward’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in C. Vann Woodward’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn 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 quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.0°
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Also born on November 13
- Whoopi Goldberg1955
- Lando Norris1999
- Jimmy Kimmel1967
- Paul Graham1964
- Lynsey Addario1973
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Prince Harry, Duke of SussexYounger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
Other Scorpio Monkey charts
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Other Tidal Guardians
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- Marsha NormanAmerican playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Sidney HowardAmerican playwright
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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- Charles Édouard GuillaumeSwiss physicist
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
C. Vann Woodward’s cards
Computed from November 13, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
C. Vann Woodward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q612410 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by C. Vann Woodward.
Quick answers about C. Vann Woodward’s chart
- What zodiac sign was C. Vann Woodward?
- C. Vann Woodward was a Scorpio: born November 13, 1908, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was C. Vann Woodward's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1908 birth.
- What was C. Vann Woodward's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was C. Vann Woodward's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was C. Vann Woodward's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was C. Vann Woodward's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
