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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sedalia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Fred Albert Shannon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Fred’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 3.6° orb
Fred’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.3° to 4.6° orb
Fred’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareMars3.4° to 3.9° orb
Fred’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Fred’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
Fred’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 6.8° orb
Fred’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 1°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Fred turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresTaurus 22°01′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Fred is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 4°03′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Fred is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 8°22′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Fred at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Fred is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Fred’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Fred is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Fred’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 2.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Fred Albert Shannon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Fred’s cards
Every card is computed from February 12, 1893, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Fred Albert Shannon, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3752598, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by The New York Times, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Albert Shannon at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Fred Albert Shannon born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 12, 1893 birth date.
- What was Fred Albert Shannon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 12, 1893 birth date.
- 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.
