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Fred L. Packer

Fred L. Packer (born January 4, 1886, Hollywood, United States; died 1956), was an American cartoonist and illustrator. Packer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Fred L. Packer’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Fred L. Packer’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Strategist

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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

The SSA recorded 1,599 American boys and 9 girls named Fred in 1886: 15th among boys and 795th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Fred’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4).

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

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

The record

What sets Fred apart

Victor Wembanyama (2004) and Rayssa Leal (2008) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Fred, according to the stars

Core essence

Fred is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Fred is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Fred builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Fred is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Fred is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Fred leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Fred channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Fred

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fred

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

PrivateExpressive
Fred

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fred

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Fred

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fred

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Fred L. Packer

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

Fred’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.2° 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 Hollywood that night

Computed for 34.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hollywood was Menkib, in Perseus, 86.8° up.

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

Hollywood sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hollywood at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual Fred's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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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Fred L. Packer at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Fred L. Packer's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 4, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Fred L. Packer was born on January 4, 1886, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Fred L. Packer's birth date, January 4, 1886, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Fred’s chart

Fred’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.4° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.5° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°28′☉14°Moon in Capricorn · 9°06′☽9°Mercury in Sagittarius · 21°39′☿21°Venus in Aquarius · 28°21′♀28°Mars in Virgo · 22°44′♂22°Jupiter in Libra · 5°37′♃5°Saturn in Cancer · 4°09′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Libra · 7°42′♅7°Neptune in Taurus · 23°00′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Gemini · 1°25′ · retrograde♇℞1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.1° to 0.4° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 1.3° orb

    Fred’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Fred’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.0° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 6.2° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°33′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 14°17′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Mars 0.2°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.5°

Fred’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Fred’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.3°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Fred’s cards

Computed from January 4, 1886. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q27431328 (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 Fred L. Packer 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 L. Packer.

Quick answers about Fred L. Packer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Fred L. Packer?
Fred L. Packer was a Capricorn: born January 4, 1886, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Fred L. Packer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 4, 1886 birth.
What was Fred L. Packer's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Fred L. Packer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Fred L. Packer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Fred L. Packer's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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