Frank D. Fackenthal
Frank D. Fackenthal (born February 22, 1883, Hellertown, United States; died 1968), was an American educator. Fackenthal's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
Frank D. Fackenthal’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank D. Fackenthal’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
The SSA recorded 2,986 American boys and 17 girls named Frank in 1883: 6th among boys and 469th among girls for the year.
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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2).
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
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Frank apart
The Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards came in 1948, when Frank D. Fackenthal was 65.
Study took Frank D. Fackenthal to Columbia University.
Wikipedia files Frank D. Fackenthal under Presidents of Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards winners and Columbia College, Columbia University alumni.
George Washington (1732) and Heinrich Hertz (1857) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1948)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Frank is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Frank is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Frank needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Frank you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Frank creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank 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. Frank 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Frank goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Frank D. Fackenthal
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hellertown 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 Hellertown that night
Computed for 40.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hellertown at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Hellertown sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hellertown on any night.
Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hellertown, United States
The death is recorded at East Stroudsburg, Monroe County in 1968.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank D. Fackenthal: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Fire planets
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Frank D. Fackenthal's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 22, 1883, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Goat
Water GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Frank D. Fackenthal was born on February 22, 1883, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Frank D. Fackenthal's birth date, February 22, 1883, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank D. Fackenthal's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frank D. Fackenthal combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb
Frank’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.5° to 1.3° orb
Frank’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.6° orb
Frank’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.6° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.8° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.2° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 5°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°54′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°33′ (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 Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 2.8°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, 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 quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Frank’s cards
Computed from February 22, 1883. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5486115 (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 D. Fackenthal 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 D. Fackenthal.
Quick answers about Frank D. Fackenthal’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank D. Fackenthal?
- Frank D. Fackenthal was a Pisces: born February 22, 1883, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank D. Fackenthal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 22, 1883 birth.
- What was Frank D. Fackenthal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank D. Fackenthal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank D. Fackenthal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank D. Fackenthal's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
