Leonard Baker
Leonard Baker (born January 24, 1931, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1984), was an American biographer. Baker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Leonard Baker’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Leonard
Leonard Baker’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Leonard in the U.S.?
#637
US rank in 2025
~295,746
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Leonard ranked 48th among boys and 1,386th among girls in 1931, the year of this birth, with 4,279 American boys and 29 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonard’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 D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Leonard apart
Leonard Baker took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1979, at 48.
Training came by way of University of Pittsburgh.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
Wikipedia's editors put Leonard Baker under St. Louis Globe-Democrat people, University of Pittsburgh alumni and American male biographers.
The same date carries Lars Hörmander. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Pittsburgh
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1979)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Leonard, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonard is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Leonard is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonard runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Leonard needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Leonard wants to be loved
Leonard 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 Leonard and watch them fall for you again.
How Leonard creates
How Leonard makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Leonard creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Leonard 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Leonard 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Leonard fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Leonard's birth date. Working below.
Where Leonard sits
Six lines
Leonard’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 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 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 Leonard Baker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
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 Pittsburgh on any night.
The Moon, 32% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pittsburgh, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 1984.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leonard Baker: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leonard's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · Mars retrograde
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 →Leonard Baker at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Leonard Baker's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Leonard Baker was born on January 24, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Leonard Baker's birth date, January 24, 1931, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Leonard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leonard Baker's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Leonard Baker combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Leonard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Aries 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 6.5° orb
Leonard’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.4° orb
Leonard’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
Leonard’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableSunoppositionMars3.7° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.8° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Leonard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°00′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 14°15′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 7°16′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 4°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 8°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.2°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 3.0°
Leonard’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Leonard’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusAn 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-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.3°
Born the same day as Leonard
Lars Hörmander was born on January 24, 1931 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Pittsburgh, at 40.4°N, nothing below −49.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Leonard
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Born in United States
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- Xavier Becerra25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Born in Horse years
- Josh HartnettAmerican actor and producer
- Sadie SinkAmerican actress
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Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
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- Tatyana Ali1979
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Leonard’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6525102 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leonard Baker.
Quick answers about Leonard Baker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leonard Baker?
- Leonard Baker was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Leonard Baker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1931 birth.
- What was Leonard Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leonard Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leonard Baker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leonard Baker's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
