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George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush (born George Herbert Walker Bush; June 12, 1924, Milton, United States; died 2018), was President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held office as Vice President of the United States and Director of Central Intelligence. Bush's honours include Dostyk Order of grade I, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit and Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

George H. W. Bush’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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George H. W. Bush’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#126

US rank in 2025

~1,497,260

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

The SSA recorded 27,373 American boys and 197 girls named George in 1924: 6th among boys and 503rd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What George’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name George Herbert Walker Bush, not the name they published under.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets George apart

The Franz Josef Strauss Award came in 1999, when George H. W. Bush was 75.

The schooling ran through Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School and Greenwich Country Day School.

George H. W. Bush was 18 when the work began in 1942.

The record gives Parkinson's disease as the cause, and George Bush Presidential Library as the resting place.

The family line: born to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush, married Barbara Bush and raised 5 children.

Wikipedia files George H. W. Bush under American people of the Gulf War, Candidates in the 1980 United States presidential election and Ambassadors of the United States to China.

Anne Frank (1929) and Jordan Peterson (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, Greenwich Country Day School and Davenport College
Awards
Osgar (2009) and Franz Josef Strauss Award (1999)
Working from
1942
Cause of death
Parkinson's disease
Buried at
George Bush Presidential Library
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
196

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. George needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, George cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What George needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How George wants to be loved

George wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. George gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How George creates

How George makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. George creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: George is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. George is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. George goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from George's birth date. Working below.

Where George sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
George

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

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

PrivateExpressive
George

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
George

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to George H. W. Bush

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milton 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 Milton that night

Computed for 42.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Milton was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 82.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Milton sits at 42.2°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 Milton at all: they sit past the −47.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 76% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born as
George Herbert Walker Bush
Known as
George H. W. Bush
Born in
Milton, United States

The death is recorded at Houston, Harris County in 2018.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George H. W. Bush: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual George's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · Venus retrograde · 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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George H. W. Bush in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

George H. W. Bush's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 12, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

George H. W. Bush was born on June 12, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

George H. W. Bush's birth date, June 12, 1924, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 0.6° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.3° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.9° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Gemini · 21°22′☉21°Moon in Libra · 18°05′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 29°25′☿29°Venus in Cancer · 17°27′ · retrograde♀℞17°Mars in Aquarius · 25°28′♂25°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 14°11′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Libra · 25°50′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Pisces · 21°26′♅21°Neptune in Leo · 18°08′♆18°Pluto in Cancer · 11°21′♇11°

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

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb

    George’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.1° to 0.6° orb

    George’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars3.8° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.0° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter6.6° to 7.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.5° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 23°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 23°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 23°12′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°28′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 9°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Eros trine Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres opposition Saturn 2.0°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 2.1°
  • Eros trine Mars 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 2.5°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.6°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in George’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°

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George’s cards

Computed from June 12, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23505 (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 David Valdez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same George H. W. Bush at Wikipedia, bush41.org, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George H. W. Bush.

Quick answers about George H. W. Bush’s chart

What zodiac sign was George H. W. Bush?
George H. W. Bush was a Gemini: born June 12, 1924, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was George H. W. Bush's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 12, 1924 birth.
How tall was George H. W. Bush?
George H. W. Bush was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was George H. W. Bush's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was George H. W. Bush's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was George H. W. Bush's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was George H. W. Bush's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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