Lawrance Thompson
Lawrance Thompson (born April 3, 1906, Franklin, United States; died 1973), was an American academic and biographer. Thompson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lawrance Thompson’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Lawrance
Lawrance Thompson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Lawrance in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~2,637
Americans share it since 1889
1950
its peak year
US records hold Lawrance from 1889 onward, though not for 1906 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1950 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lawrance’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on L (3) 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
Lawrance’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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 1906, 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 Lawrance apart
Lawrance Thompson took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945, at 39.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lawrance Thompson: Academics from New Hampshire, Columbia University fellows and Wesleyan University faculty.
Marlon Brando (1924) and Jane Goodall (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1971) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1945)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Lawrance, according to the stars
Core essence
Lawrance leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Lawrance is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Lawrance wants to be loved
Lawrance wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Lawrance creates
How Lawrance 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. Lawrance 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: Lawrance is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Lawrance is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Lawrance is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Lawrance's birth date. Working below.
Where Lawrance sits
Six lines
Lawrance’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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Lawrance Thompson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Franklin 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 Franklin that night
Computed for 43.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Franklin at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 3.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Franklin at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 69% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Franklin, United States
The death is recorded at Princeton, Mercer County in 1973.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lawrance Thompson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lawrance's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Lawrance Thompson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Lawrance Thompson was born on April 3, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Lawrance Thompson's birth date, April 3, 1906, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Lawrance’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lawrance Thompson's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lawrance Thompson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Lawrance’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Cancer or Leo 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
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.8° orb
Lawrance’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Lawrance’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.5° orb
Lawrance’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.5° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Lawrance’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 19°47′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 18°58′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°13′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
Lawrance’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Lawrance’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn 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.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.7°
More people like Lawrance
Other biographers
- William S. White1905
- Leon Edel1907
- Henry F. Pringle1897
- David Herbert Donald1920
Born in United States
- George DillonAmerican poet
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- Lynn HeinzerlingAmerican correspondent
- John PatrickAmerican playwright and screenwriter
- Sidney KingsleyAmerican writer
- William S. WhiteAmerican journalist and biographer
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on April 3
- Marlon Brando1924
- Jane Goodall1934
- Eddie Murphy1961
- Nigel Farage1964
- Cobie Smulders1982
- Amanda Bynes1986
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Mikhail ProkhorovRussian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)
- Vincent BolloréCEO of investment group Bolloré
- Vladimir LitvinenkoRussian mining scientist
Other Aries Horse charts
- Bruce SterlingAmerican author, speaker and futurist (born 1954)
- Tommy SmithNew Zealand footballer
- Taliese FuagaAmerican football player
- Tress WayAmerican football player (born 1990)
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Jean RenoSpanish-French actor
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
- Chris PennAmerican actor
- Gabriel ByrneIrish actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Clark GableAmerican actor
- John CleeseEnglish comedian and actor (born 1939)
- Marlene DietrichGerman and American actress and singer
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Lawrance’s cards
Computed from April 3, 1906. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lawrance’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q59533654 (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.
The same Lawrance Thompson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lawrance Thompson.
Quick answers about Lawrance Thompson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lawrance Thompson?
- Lawrance Thompson was an Aries: born April 3, 1906, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Lawrance Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1906 birth.
- What was Lawrance Thompson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lawrance Thompson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lawrance Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lawrance Thompson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
