Lawrence H. Gipson
Lawrence H. Gipson (born December 7, 1880, Greeley, United States; died 1971), was an American writer. Gipson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and Rhodes Scholarship.
Lawrence H. Gipson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lawrence
Lawrence H. Gipson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 1880, 257 American boys were registered Lawrence — 65th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Lawrence apart
The Rhodes Scholarship came in 1904, when Lawrence H. Gipson was 24.
Study took Lawrence H. Gipson to University of Idaho and Lincoln College.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Caldwell, Idaho, Historians of the Seven Years War and University of Idaho alumni.
Nicholas Hoult (1989) and Chris Wood (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Idaho, Lincoln College and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1962), Rhodes Scholarship (1904) and Bancroft Prize (1950)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Lawrence, according to the stars
Core essence
Lawrence is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Lawrence is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Lawrence wants to be loved
Lawrence wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Lawrence you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Lawrence creates
How Lawrence makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Lawrence creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Lawrence is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lawrence is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Lawrence has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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.
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 Lawrence H. Gipson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greeley 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 Greeley that night
Computed for 40.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Greeley at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Greeley sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Greeley on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 44% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Greeley, United States
- Lived in
- Greeley
Wikidata records Greeley as Lawrence H. Gipson's home, Greeley among them.
The death is recorded at Bethlehem, Lehigh County in 1971.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lawrence H. Gipson: 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
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Lawrence H. Gipson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 7, 1880, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonBorn for the big room.
Lawrence H. Gipson was born on December 7, 1880, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Lawrence H. Gipson's birth date, December 7, 1880, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lawrence’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lawrence H. Gipson's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Lawrence H. Gipson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Lawrence’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Lawrence’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.0° to 1.6° orb
Lawrence’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
Lawrence’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.3° to 6.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.3° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Lawrence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 17°49′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°15′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 12°20′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 8°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.0°
- Eros square Saturn 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.7°
Lawrence’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Lawrence’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on December 7
- Nicholas Hoult1989
- Chris Wood1991
- Caleb Landry Jones1989
- Dan Bilzerian1980
- Aaron Carter1987
- Terrell Owens1973
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- Kris JennerAmerican media personality, socialite, and businesswoman
- Freddie HighmoreEnglish actor
- Diego LunaMexican actor
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
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- Kirk DouglasAmerican actor
- Penelope FitzgeraldBritish writer and poet
- Enrico BombieriItalian mathematician (1940-)
Other Gilded Seekers
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Lawrence’s cards
Computed from December 7, 1880. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lawrence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1809194 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lawrence H. Gipson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lawrence H. Gipson.
Quick answers about Lawrence H. Gipson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lawrence H. Gipson?
- Lawrence H. Gipson was a Sagittarius: born December 7, 1880, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Lawrence H. Gipson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 7, 1880 birth.
- What was Lawrence H. Gipson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lawrence H. Gipson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lawrence H. Gipson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lawrence H. Gipson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
