Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938, Sugar City, United States), aged 88, is an American historian. Ulrich's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, MacArthur Fellows Program and Bancroft Prize.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Laurel
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Laurel in the U.S.?
#734
US rank in 2025
~48,973
Americans share it since 1883
1956
its peak year
The SSA recorded 281 American girls and 26 boys named Laurel in 1938: 398th among girls and 1,324th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Laurel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on L (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Laurel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Laurel apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1991, when Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was 53.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was taught at Simmons University and Sugar-Salem High School.
Wikipedia files Laurel Thatcher Ulrich under Feminist historians, Mormon feminists and Historians from Idaho.
Giorgio Armani (1934) and Jafar Panahi (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Simmons University, Sugar-Salem High School and University of New Hampshire
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1991), Pulitzer Prize for History (1991) and Bancroft Prize (1991)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for History
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Laurel, according to the stars
Core essence
Laurel feels the room before entering it. The core of Laurel is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Laurel, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Laurel is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Laurel needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Laurel wants to be loved
Laurel wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Laurel openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Laurel creates
How Laurel makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Laurel builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Laurel is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Laurel 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Laurel does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Laurel's birth date. Working below.
Where Laurel sits
Six lines
Laurel’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 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.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sugar City 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 Sugar City that night
Computed for 43.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Sugar City at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.1° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Sugar City sits at 43.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sugar City on any night.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sugar City, United States
- Lives in
- Cambridge
Wikidata records Cambridge as Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Laurel's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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 →Laurel Thatcher Ulrich at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 11, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born on July 11, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's birth date, July 11, 1938, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Laurel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Laurel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Laurel’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Laurel’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileUranus1.3° to 2.2° orb
Laurel’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.8° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.3° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.5° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 2.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Laurel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°12′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°28′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 14°42′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°39′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°
Laurel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Laurel’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.2°
More people like Laurel
Other writers
- Roger Zelazny1937
- Peter Nicholls1939
- John W. Dower1938
- Lee Pennington1939
- Jared Diamond1937
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
Born in United States
- John CoriglianoAmerican composer (born 1938)
- Thomas F. Frist, Jr.American businessman
- Brian DennehyAmerican actor
- Ted TurnerAmerican media mogul
- David BaltimoreAmerican biologist and Nobel laureate
- Natalie WoodAmerican actress
More charts like Laurel’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Federico ViñasUruguayan footballer
- MaurícioParaguayan association football player (born 2001)
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
Born in Tiger years
- Joel EdgertonAustralian actor
- Brooke ElliottAmerican actress and singer
- Emilio EstevezAmerican actor, director, and writer
Also born on July 11
- Giorgio Armani1934
- Jafar Panahi1960
- Lil' Kim1974
- Lisa Rinna1963
- Joan Smalls1988
- Justin Chambers1970
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Frederick BantingCanadian medical scientist and doctor
- Frédéric PassyFrench economist and statesman
- Kurt AlderGerman chemist
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Felipe de Marichalar y BorbónSpanish noble (born 1998); son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Don Jaime de Marichalar
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
- Brian DennehyAmerican actor
- Natalie WoodAmerican actress
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Winnie HarlowJamaican-Canadian fashion model
- Jessie ReyezCanadian singer-songwriter
- Sebastián YatraColombian singer, actor and songwriter
- Luke HemmingsAustralian singer and guitarist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Will KopelmanAmerican actor
- Jenna JohnsonAmerican professional dancer
- Danny MastersonAmerican former actor and convicted sex offender
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Laurel’s cards
Computed from July 11, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Laurel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4474952 (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 GRuban, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 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 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Quick answers about Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s chart
- How old is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich?
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 88 years old, born July 11, 1938 in Sugar City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich?
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Cancer: born July 11, 1938, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 11, 1938 birth.
- What is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
