Claude H. Van Tyne
Claude H. Van Tyne (born October 16, 1869, Tecumseh, United States; died 1930), was an American historian. Tyne's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Claude H. Van Tyne’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Claude
Claude H. Van Tyne’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Claude in the U.S.?
#3044
US rank in 2025
~92,289
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1869 — the SSA series begins 11 years later. Claude opened it at 56th among boys and 553rd among girls, 309 American boys and 10 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Claude’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Claude apart
Claude H. Van Tyne took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1930, at 61.
Training came by way of University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Claude H. Van Tyne: People from Tecumseh, Michigan, Historians from Michigan and University of Pennsylvania alumni.
Günter Grass (1927) and Naomi Osaka (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1930)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Claude, according to the stars
Core essence
Claude makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Claude is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Claude is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Claude needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Claude wants to be loved
Claude 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 Claude and watch them fall for you again.
How Claude creates
How Claude makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Claude creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Claude is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Claude is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Claude runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Claude's birth date. Working below.
Where Claude sits
Six lines
Claude’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Claude H. Van Tyne
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tecumseh 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 Tecumseh that night
Computed for 42.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tecumseh at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 15.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tecumseh at all: they sit past the −48.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Tecumseh, United States
The death is recorded at Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County in 1930.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Claude H. Van Tyne: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Claude's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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 →Claude H. Van Tyne at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Claude H. Van Tyne's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 16, 1869, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeSays less than it knows.
Claude H. Van Tyne was born on October 16, 1869, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Claude H. Van Tyne's birth date, October 16, 1869, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Claude’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claude H. Van Tyne's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Claude H. Van Tyne combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Claude’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Pisces 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
stableSunsquareUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb
Claude’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Claude’s growth and depths act as one.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
Claude’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.8° to 5.3° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 1.4° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.3° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Claude’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°44′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 2°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°05′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 28°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°14′ (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 Venus 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.4°
Claude’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Claude’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusAn 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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
More people like Claude
Other historians
Born in United States
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- Emily Greene BalchAmerican economist and writer
- Leonora SpeyerAmerican poet
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Born in Snake years
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- Ben SheppardAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Also born on October 16
- Günter Grass1927
- Naomi Osaka1997
- Loreen1983
- Tim Robbins1958
- John Mayer1977
- Flea1962
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- John ThuneAmerican politician (born 1961)
- Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
- Mike PenceVice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Other Libra Snake charts
- Felix BlochSwiss physicist
- Dakota JohnsonAmerican actress
- Paul SimonAmerican singer-songwriter
- David TrezeguetFrench footballer
Other Gilded Pioneers
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Claude’s cards
Computed from October 16, 1869. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3679807 (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 Claude H. Van Tyne.
Quick answers about Claude H. Van Tyne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Claude H. Van Tyne?
- Claude H. Van Tyne was a Libra: born October 16, 1869, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Claude H. Van Tyne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 16, 1869 birth.
- What was Claude H. Van Tyne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Claude H. Van Tyne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Claude H. Van Tyne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Claude H. Van Tyne's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
