Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff (born April 24, 1914, Danbury, United States; died 1971), was an American journalist. Conniff's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Frank Conniff’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank Conniff’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1914, Frank came 9th among boys and 868th among girls, carried by 12,002 American boys and 46 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Frank apart
Frank Conniff took the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1956, at 42.
University of Virginia shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1956, at 42.
Frank Conniff was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Frank Conniff: Writers from Danbury, Connecticut, American war correspondents of the Korean War and University of Virginia alumni.
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Virginia
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1956)
- Working from
- 1956
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Frank is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Frank is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Frank 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: Frank 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Frank is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Frank does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Frank Conniff
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Danbury 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 Danbury that night
Computed for 41.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Danbury at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.4°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 Danbury at all: they sit past the −48.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 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.
Score your own chart →Frank Conniff at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Frank Conniff's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Frank Conniff was born on April 24, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Frank Conniff's birth date, April 24, 1914, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Conniff's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Frank Conniff combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.9° orb
Frank’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonsquareNeptune0.0° to 6.1° orb
Frank’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Frank’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.9° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.3° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.4° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°29′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 21°49′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 1°11′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 5°56′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Venus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
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Born in United States
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Mary E. BrunkowAmerican molecular biologist and immunologist
- Henryk SienkiewiczPolish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Peter J. RatcliffeBritish biologist & Nobel laureate in medicine
Born in Tiger years
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Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- Kelly Clarkson1982
- Josep Borrell1947
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Jean-Paul Gaultier1952
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Frank’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15460280 (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.
The same Frank Conniff at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank Conniff.
Quick answers about Frank Conniff’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank Conniff?
- Frank Conniff was a Taurus: born April 24, 1914, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank Conniff's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1914 birth.
- What was Frank Conniff's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank Conniff's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank Conniff's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank Conniff's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
