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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Frederic’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Frederic sits

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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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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Frederic’s chart

Frederic’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Frederic L. Paxson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Moon in Cancer · 8°20′Mercury in Aquarius · 8°43′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′ · retrograde22°Neptune in Taurus · 3°01′Pluto in Taurus · 22°41′22°

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.

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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.

  • 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

    Frederic’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.2° orb

    Frederic’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.9° orb

    Frederic’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.2° to 6.3° orb

    Frederic’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.2° to 6.4° orb

    Frederic’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Frederic may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Frederic caring by building something that lasts for others.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Frederic is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaLibra 15°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Frederic is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Frederic at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Frederic’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. 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

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Frederic is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Frederic’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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Frederic L. Paxson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Frederic’s cards

Every card is computed from February 23, 1877, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

yin Fire

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Fire

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Frederic L. Paxson, 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

Frederic’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3752716, 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.

The same Frederic L. Paxson 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
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 time was Frederic L. Paxson 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 Frederic L. Paxson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 23, 1877 birth date.
What was Frederic L. Paxson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 23, 1877 birth date.
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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