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Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich (born December 21, 1890, Belleville, United States; died 1984), was an American writer. Goodrich's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

Frances Goodrich’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius or Capricorn (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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

#318

US rank in 2025

~600,721

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,416 American girls and 12 boys named Frances in 1890: 33rd among girls and 578th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Frances’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 9: care against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Frances’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

—

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Frances apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1956, when Frances Goodrich was 66.

Frances Goodrich was taught at Columbia University School of Social Work and Collegiate School.

Frances Goodrich was 26 when the work began in 1916.

Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.

The family line: married Robert Ames and Albert Hackett.

Wikipedia files Frances Goodrich under Columbia University School of Social Work alumni, Dramatists and playwrights from New Jersey and People from Nutley, New Jersey.

Hermann Joseph Muller shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Columbia University School of Social Work, Collegiate School and Vassar College
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1956) and Tony Award for Best Play (1956)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Working from
1916
Cause of death
lung cancer
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
15

What the chart says

Frances, according to the stars

How Frances wants to be loved

Frances 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 Frances and watch them fall for you again.

How Frances creates

How Frances 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. Frances 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: Frances is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Frances 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Frances slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Frances's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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The sky over Belleville that night

Computed for 40.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Belleville at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.1° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Belleville sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 83% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Belleville, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1984.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frances Goodrich: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Frances's chart is

Chart pattern score

45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · 2 planets at a critical degree · Venus retrograde

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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The quick version

Sagittarius or Capricorn Sun

Frances Goodrich was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Metal Tiger

Courage before caution.

Frances Goodrich was born on December 21, 1890, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Frances Goodrich's birth date, December 21, 1890, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Frances’s chart

Frances’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.3° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 29°50′☉29°Moon in Taurus · 5°59′☽5°Mercury in Capricorn · 17°56′☿17°Venus in Sagittarius · 4°34′ · retrograde♀℞4°Mars in Pisces · 3°29′♂3°Jupiter in Aquarius · 12°18′♃12°Saturn in Virgo · 17°09′♄17°Uranus in Scorpio · 0°30′♅0°Neptune in Gemini · 4°45′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Gemini · 6°29′ · retrograde♇℞6°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.1° to 1.5° orb

    Frances’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Frances’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb

    Frances’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.6° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus2.6° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.6° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Frances’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 3°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°31′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 29°51′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Sun 0.0°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°
  • Chiron square Uranus 2.9°

Frances’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Frances’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Pluto, MarsAn 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.

  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.7°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

Frances’s family here

One relative of Frances Goodrich also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Frances

Hermann Joseph Muller was born on December 21, 1890 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Belleville, at 40.8°N, nothing below −49.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Frances’s cards

Computed from December 21, 1890. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Frances’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q508285 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Frances Goodrich at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frances Goodrich.

Quick answers about Frances Goodrich’s chart

What zodiac sign was Frances Goodrich?
Frances Goodrich was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What was Frances Goodrich's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1890 birth.
What was Frances Goodrich's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Frances Goodrich's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Frances Goodrich's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Frances Goodrich's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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