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Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson (born April 11, 1893, Middletown, United States; died 1971), was an American statesman and lawyer. Acheson held office as United States Secretary of State. Acheson's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for History and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dean Acheson’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Dean Acheson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Dean in the U.S.?

#125

US rank in 2025

~195,844

Americans share it since 1880

1961

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Dean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Dean, according to the stars

Core essence

Dean leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Dean is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Dean needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Dean needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Dean wants to be loved

Dean wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Dean creates

How Dean 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. Dean 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: Dean 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Dean 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Dean scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Dean's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Dean sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Dean

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dean

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Dean

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dean

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Dean

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dean

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dean Acheson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Middletown on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Dean’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 87.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 39° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Dean Acheson at a glance

Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Dean Acheson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Water Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Dean Acheson was born on April 11, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Dean Acheson's birth date, April 11, 1893, 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 Dean’s chart

Dean’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Dean Acheson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.2° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.4° orbSun in Aries · 22°01′☉22°Moon in Aquarius · 17°59′☽17°Mercury in Aries · 4°54′ · retrograde☿℞4°Venus in Aries · 16°37′♀16°Mars in Gemini · 9°05′♂9°Jupiter in Taurus · 4°01′♃4°Saturn in Libra · 8°28′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Scorpio · 9°25′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Gemini · 9°17′♆9°Pluto in Gemini · 8°17′♇8°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Dean’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Dean’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 1.0° orb

    Dean’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Dean’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Dean’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.0° orb

    Dean’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 3.5° orb

    Dean’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.5° to 3.7° orb

    Dean’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.6° orb

    Dean’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune4.2° to 4.5° orb

    Dean’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.3° to 5.5° orb

    Dean’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.3° to 5.5° orb

    Dean’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Dean’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 ℞Leo 27°40′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Dean performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 10°04′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Dean feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 7°19′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Dean is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 5°07′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Dean at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Dean leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.0°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.8°
  • Eros square Mars 1.8°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.1°

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°).

Dean’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. 1. ♂ Mars10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Dean is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Dean’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, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

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.

  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dean Acheson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Dean’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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The Steadfast Visionary

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♂ Ruled by Mars

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Dean Acheson, 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

Dean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q214758, 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 U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dean Acheson 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.

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Quick answers about Dean Acheson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Dean Acheson?
Dean Acheson was an Aries: born April 11, 1893, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Snake.
What was Dean Acheson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1893 birth.
What time was Dean Acheson 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 Dean Acheson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 11, 1893 birth date.
What was Dean Acheson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 11, 1893 birth date.
Where was Dean Acheson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Dean Acheson's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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