Fred Albert Shannon
Fred Albert Shannon (born February 12, 1893, Sedalia, United States; died 1963), was an American historian. Shannon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Fred Albert Shannon’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Fred
Fred Albert Shannon’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Fred in the U.S.?
#1936
US rank in 2025
~345,684
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Fred ranked 15th among boys and 1,041st among girls in 1893, the year of this birth, with 1,493 American boys and 9 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 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
The record
What sets Fred apart
Fred Albert Shannon took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1929, at 36.
Training came by way of Indiana State University and Indiana University.
The grave is at Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Fred Albert Shannon under Kansas State University faculty, Indiana State University alumni and University of Iowa alumni.
Abraham Lincoln (1809) and Charles Darwin (1809) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Indiana State University, Indiana University and University of Iowa
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1929)
- Buried at
- Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Fred, according to the stars
Core essence
Fred is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Fred 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Fred is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Fred needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Fred wants to be loved
Fred 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 Fred be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Fred creates
How Fred makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Fred 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: Fred is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Fred 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Fred is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Fred's birth date. Working below.
Where Fred sits
Six lines
Fred’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.
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 Fred Albert Shannon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sedalia 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 Sedalia that night
Computed for 38.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sedalia at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 14% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Fred's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 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 →Fred Albert Shannon at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Fred Albert Shannon's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Fred Albert Shannon was born on February 12, 1893, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Fred Albert Shannon's birth date, February 12, 1893, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Fred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Albert Shannon's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Fred Albert Shannon combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Fred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb
Fred’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.7° orb
Fred’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.4° to 3.2° orb
Fred’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenustrinePluto2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 3.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.3° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.4° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Fred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 1°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 22°01′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 4°03′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 8°22′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.1°
- Chiron trine Mars 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres square Sun 2.3°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.4°
Fred’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Fred’s chart
Stellium 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 2.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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- Abraham Lincoln1809
- Charles Darwin1809
- Christina Ricci1980
- Josh Brolin1968
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- Bobi Wine1982
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Other Aquarius Dragon charts
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Other Gilded Scholars
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- Darryl F. ZanuckAmerican film producer
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Fred’s cards
Computed from February 12, 1893. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3752598 (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 The New York Times, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Albert Shannon at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Fred Albert Shannon.
Quick answers about Fred Albert Shannon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fred Albert Shannon?
- Fred Albert Shannon was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1893, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1893 birth.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Fred Albert Shannon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
