Gregory White Smith
Gregory White Smith (born October 4, 1951, Ithaca, United States; died 2014), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer. Smith's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Gregory White Smith’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Gregory
Gregory White Smith’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gregory in the U.S.?
#593
US rank in 2025
~714,753
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
In 1951, 14,102 American boys and 33 girls were registered Gregory — 25th among boys and 1,677th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gregory’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gregory’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Gregory apart
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gregory, according to the stars
Core essence
Gregory makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Gregory is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Gregory wants to be loved
Gregory wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gregory and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gregory creates
How Gregory 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. Gregory 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: Gregory is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Gregory 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.
Computed from Gregory's birth date. Working below.
Where Gregory sits
Six lines
Gregory’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ithaca 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 Ithaca that night
Computed for 42.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Ithaca at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
Ithaca sits at 42.4°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 Ithaca at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon down and 19% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Gregory's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Uranus · 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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Gregory White Smith's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Gregory White Smith was born on October 4, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Gregory White Smith's birth date, October 4, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Gregory’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gregory White Smith's date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gregory White Smith combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Gregory’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.2° to 2.3° orb
Gregory’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn1.5° to 3.2° orb
Gregory’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
Gregory’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.2° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Gregory’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 27°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 3°46′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 13°32′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°52′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 10°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros square Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.2°
- Eros opposition Sun 2.9°
Gregory’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gregory’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusAn 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Christoph Waltz1956
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- Melissa Benoist1988
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- Cindy NgambaCameroonian boxer
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Other Libra Rabbit charts
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- Harry KrotoBritish chemist
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Other Radiant Diplomats
- Winona RyderAmerican actress
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Gregory’s cards
Computed from October 4, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gregory’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16501099 (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 Robert Clark, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gregory White Smith at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Quick answers about Gregory White Smith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gregory White Smith?
- Gregory White Smith was a Libra: born October 4, 1951, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Gregory White Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1951 birth.
- What was Gregory White Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gregory White Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gregory White Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gregory White Smith's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
