Eric Foner
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943, New York City, United States), aged 83, is an American historian (born 1943). Foner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Eric Foner’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric Foner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1943, Eric came 161st, carried by 1,170 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Eric apart
Eric Foner took the Bancroft Prize in 1989, at 46.
The classrooms behind this chart: Long Beach High School and Oriel College.
Eric Foner was born to Jack D. Foner and married Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and Lynn Garafola.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Eric Foner: Historians of the Reconstruction era, Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford and Lincoln Prize winners.
Tawakkol Karman (1979) and Ashton Kutcher (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Long Beach High School, Oriel College and Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (2011), Bancroft Prize (1989) and American History Book Prize (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Eric is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Eric, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Eric creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Eric is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Eric does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Capella, in Auriga, 84.8° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 13% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · Grand trine · 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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Eric Foner's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 7, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Eric Foner was born on February 7, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Eric Foner's birth date, February 7, 1943, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Foner's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Eric Foner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Eric’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars0.5° to 1.1° orb
Eric’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Eric’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.6° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.0° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.3° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.4° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 26°51′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 8°26′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 8°21′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 5°56′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.1°
- Ceres square Mars 0.2°
- Eros square Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.9°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like Eric
Other historians
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- William S. McFeely1930
- Jack N. Rakove1947
- David Hackett Fischer1935
- Edward James1947
- Michael Kammen1936
Born in United States
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- Calvin KleinAmerican fashion designer
- Bob WoodwardAmerican investigative journalist (born 1943)
- Sharon OldsAmerican poet
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Born in Goat years
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Eric’s cards
Computed from February 7, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3056269 (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.
Portrait by Luath at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Foner at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eric Foner.
Quick answers about Eric Foner’s chart
- How old is Eric Foner?
- Eric Foner is 83 years old, born February 7, 1943 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Foner?
- Eric Foner is an Aquarius: born February 7, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Eric Foner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 7, 1943 birth.
- What is Eric Foner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eric Foner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eric Foner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Foner's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
