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Frederic L. Paxson

Frederic L. Paxson (born February 23, 1877, Philadelphia, United States; died 1948), was a Pulitzer Prize for History winner. Paxson is best remembered for The last American frontier. Paxson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.

Frederic L. Paxson’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Frederic L. Paxson’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#2953

US rank in 2025

~14,440

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

No US figure exists for 1877 — the SSA series begins 3 years later. Frederic opened it at 365th, 22 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Frederic’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on F (6) and closes on C (3).

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

Frederic’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Frederic apart

Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Frederic, according to the stars

Core essence

Frederic feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Frederic 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, Frederic is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Frederic needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Frederic wants to be loved

Frederic 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 Frederic be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Frederic creates

How Frederic 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. Frederic 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: Frederic is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Frederic is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Frederic has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Frederic's birth date. Working below.

Where Frederic sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Frederic

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Frederic

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

PrivateExpressive
Frederic

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Frederic

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Frederic

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Frederic

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

Dedicate a star to Frederic L. Paxson

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

Frederic’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 66.7° 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 Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 8.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Philadelphia sits at 40.0°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 Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 81% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual Frederic's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Pluto · 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.

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Frederic L. Paxson in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Frederic L. Paxson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1877, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Fire Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Frederic L. Paxson was born on February 23, 1877, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Frederic L. Paxson's birth date, February 23, 1877, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Frederic’s chart

Frederic’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.1° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 4° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.8° orbSun in Pisces · 5°15′☉5°Moon in Cancer · 8°20′☽8°Mercury in Aquarius · 8°43′☿8°Venus in Aquarius · 16°55′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 26°10′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 29°11′♃29°Saturn in Pisces · 10°00′♄10°Uranus in Leo · 22°08′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Taurus · 3°01′♆3°Pluto in Taurus · 22°41′♇22°

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

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Frederic’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Frederic’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.3° orb

    Frederic’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.7° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.2° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°51′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 26°54′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 15°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.2°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.6°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°

Frederic’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Frederic’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Venus, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°

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Frederic’s cards

Computed from February 23, 1877. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Frederic’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3752716 (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 Frederic L. Paxson at Wikipedia.

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Quick answers about Frederic L. Paxson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Frederic L. Paxson?
Frederic L. Paxson was a Pisces: born February 23, 1877, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Frederic L. Paxson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1877 birth.
What was Frederic L. Paxson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Frederic L. Paxson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Frederic L. Paxson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Frederic L. Paxson's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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