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Lawrence A. Cremin

Lawrence A. Cremin (born October 31, 1925, New York City, United States; died 1990), was an American historian. Cremin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Lawrence A. Cremin’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Lawrence A. Cremin’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Lawrence in the U.S.?

#520

US rank in 2025

~463,357

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

In 1925, 5,633 American boys and 26 girls were registered Lawrence — 36th among boys and 1,673rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lawrence’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

8

Soul Urge · achievement

1

Personality · self-directed

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

Lawrence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Crimson · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Lawrence apart

The Bancroft Prize came in 1962, when Lawrence A. Cremin was 37.

Study took Lawrence A. Cremin to City College of New York and Columbia University.

On Wikipedia the categories read Teachers College, Columbia University faculty, Education school deans and Scholars of American education.

John Pople shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
City College of New York and Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (1981) and Bancroft Prize (1962)
Nominated for
Pulitzer Prize for History
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
5

What the chart says

Lawrence, according to the stars

Core essence

Lawrence does not do surface. The core of Lawrence is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Lawrence is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Lawrence is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Lawrence needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Lawrence wants to be loved

Lawrence wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Lawrence and watch them fall for you again.

How Lawrence creates

How Lawrence makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Lawrence creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Lawrence is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Lawrence is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Lawrence fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Lawrence's birth date. Working below.

Where Lawrence sits

Six lines

Lawrence’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Lawrence

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lawrence

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Lawrence

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lawrence

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Lawrence

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lawrence

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Lawrence’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 77.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 32.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1990.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lawrence A. Cremin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Lawrence's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Mars

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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Lawrence A. Cremin at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Lawrence A. Cremin's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 31, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Lawrence A. Cremin was born on October 31, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Lawrence A. Cremin's birth date, October 31, 1925, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Lawrence’s chart

Lawrence’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbSun in Scorpio · 7°45′☉7°Moon in Taurus · 7°37′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 22°34′☿22°Venus in Sagittarius · 23°03′♀23°Mars in Libra · 21°29′♂21°Jupiter in Capricorn · 16°47′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 15°55′♄15°Uranus in Pisces · 21°56′ · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Leo · 24°36′♆24°Pluto in Cancer · 14°42′ · retrograde♇℞14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Lawrence’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 6.4° orb

    Lawrence’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb

    Lawrence’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune1.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars1.3° to 1.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.0° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.8° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.4° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.0° to 7.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Lawrence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 25°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 17°05′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 28°11′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 23°02′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 5°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Venus 2.5°

Lawrence’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Lawrence’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.2°

Born the same day as Lawrence

John Pople was born on October 31, 1925 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above New York City stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Lawrence’s cards

Computed from October 31, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lawrence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3828123 (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.

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Quick answers about Lawrence A. Cremin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lawrence A. Cremin?
Lawrence A. Cremin was a Scorpio: born October 31, 1925, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Lawrence A. Cremin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 31, 1925 birth.
What was Lawrence A. Cremin's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Lawrence A. Cremin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lawrence A. Cremin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lawrence A. Cremin's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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