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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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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 1880
1956
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Laurel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
Laurel’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
Laurel’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
Laurel’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
Laurel’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareSaturn4.8° to 5.4° orb
Laurel’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.3° to 6.9° orb
Laurel’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°12′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Laurel is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°28′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Laurel is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 14°42′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Laurel is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°39′ (moves 0.29° 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. Laurel is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Laurel is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Laurel’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Laurel is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Laurel’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Laurel’s cards
Every card is computed from July 11, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 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
Laurel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4474952, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- 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 time was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 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 is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 11, 1938 birth date.
- What is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 11, 1938 birth date.
- 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.
