Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born November 27, 1933, Concord, United States; died 2026), was an American history teacher, university and college faculty member, historian. Wood's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and Bancroft Prize.
Gordon S. Wood’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Gordon
Gordon S. Wood’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Gordon in the U.S.?
#1052
US rank in 2025
~155,579
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
In 1933, 2,524 American boys and 12 girls were registered Gordon — 71st among boys and 2,455th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gordon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gordon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Rose-gold · Soft pink
The record
What sets Gordon apart
Bruce Lee (1940) and Jimi Hendrix (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gordon, according to the stars
Core essence
Gordon is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Gordon is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Gordon runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Gordon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Gordon wants to be loved
Gordon wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Gordon you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Gordon creates
How Gordon 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. Gordon 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: Gordon 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Gordon is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Gordon does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Gordon's birth date. Working below.
Where Gordon sits
Six lines
Gordon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Gordon S. Wood
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Concord 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 Concord that night
Computed for 42.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Concord at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Concord sits at 42.5°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 Concord at all: they sit past the −47.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 85% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
How unusual Gordon's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Venus
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Gordon S. Wood's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 27, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Gordon S. Wood was born on November 27, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Gordon S. Wood's birth date, November 27, 1933, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Gordon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gordon S. Wood's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Gordon S. Wood combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Gordon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.0° to 6.5° orb
Gordon’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranussquarePluto0.6° orb
Gordon’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus1.3° to 2.3° orb
Gordon’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.7° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.6° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Gordon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 1°16′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 7°58′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°38′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°59′ (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 1.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.9°
Gordon’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gordon’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Uranus, VenusAn 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.
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
More people like Gordon
Other writers
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- Charles Sheffield1935
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- N. Scott Momaday1934
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel1931
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Born in United States
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- Bruce Lee1940
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- Han Kang1970
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Gordon’s cards
Computed from November 27, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gordon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5585778 (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 Earl McDonald, NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gordon S. Wood at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gordon S. Wood.
Quick answers about Gordon S. Wood’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gordon S. Wood?
- Gordon S. Wood was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1933, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Gordon S. Wood's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1933 birth.
- What was Gordon S. Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gordon S. Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gordon S. Wood's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gordon S. Wood's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
