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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, United States; died 1945), was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt held office as Governor of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's honours include Time Person of the Year, American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame and Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#359

US rank in 2025

~142,506

Americans share it since 1880

1933

its peak year

In 1882, 112 American boys were registered Franklin — 125th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Franklin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on F (6) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Franklin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

The record

What sets Franklin apart

The Time Person of the Year came in 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 59.

Study took Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Columbia Law School and Groton School.

The record gives cerebral hemorrhage as the cause, and Franklin Delano and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt tomb as the resting place.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born to Sara Roosevelt and James Roosevelt, married Eleanor Roosevelt and raised 5 children.

Felipe VI of Spain (1968) and Christian Bale (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia Law School, Groton School and Harvard College
Awards
Time Person of the Year (1941), American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame (1945) and Albert Medal (1941)
Nominated for
Nobel Peace Prize
Cause of death
cerebral hemorrhage
Buried at
Franklin Delano and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt tomb
Sport
golf
Citizenship
United States
Languages
French, German and English
Wikipedia editions
246

What the chart says

Franklin, according to the stars

Core essence

Franklin is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Franklin 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 Franklin wants to be loved

Franklin wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Franklin be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Franklin creates

How Franklin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Franklin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Franklin 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Franklin is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

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

Computed from Franklin's birth date. Working below.

Where Franklin sits

Six lines

Franklin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Franklin

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Franklin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Franklin

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Franklin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Franklin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Franklin

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

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

Franklin’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hyde Park that night

Computed for 41.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hyde Park at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 3.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Hyde Park sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hyde Park at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Hyde Park, United States
Lived in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home, against Hyde Park as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Little White House, Meriwether County in 1945.

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

How unusual Franklin's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Taurus · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · Only two elements

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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Snake

Private by design.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth date, January 30, 1882, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Franklin’s chart

Franklin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.7° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 10°46′☉10°Moon in Cancer · 1°49′☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 26°37′☿26°Venus in Aquarius · 5°36′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 27°01′ · retrograde♂℞27°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°55′♃16°Saturn in Taurus · 6°04′♄6°Uranus in Virgo · 17°56′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Taurus · 13°47′♆13°Pluto in Taurus · 27°22′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Franklin’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Franklin’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Franklin’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.7° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 17°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 4°31′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 13°41′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 21°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Uranus 0.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.3°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.9°

Franklin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Franklin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.8°

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Franklin’s cards

Computed from January 30, 1882. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Franklin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8007 (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 Leon Perskie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chart

What zodiac sign was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an Aquarius: born January 30, 1882, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1882 birth.
How tall was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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