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Louis Bromfield

Louis Bromfield (born December 27, 1896, Mansfield, United States; died 1956), was an American author and conservationist. Bromfield is best remembered for Grandma Moses American Primitive (1946). Bromfield's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Croix de guerre 1914–1918.

Louis Bromfield’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Louis Bromfield’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#249

US rank in 2025

~409,317

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Louis, according to the stars

Core essence

Louis is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Louis is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Louis cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Louis needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Louis wants to be loved

Louis wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Louis be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Louis creates

How Louis 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. Louis 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: Louis is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Louis 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Louis scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Louis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Louis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Louis

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Louis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Louis

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Louis

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Louis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Louis

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Louis Bromfield

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

Louis’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 89.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 65.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Louis Bromfield in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Louis Bromfield's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 27, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Louis Bromfield was born on December 27, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Louis Bromfield's birth date, December 27, 1896, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Louis’s chart

Louis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Louis Bromfield, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.7° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 3.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 6°31′☉6°Moon in Libra · 9°09′☽9°Mercury in Capricorn · 22°28′☿22°Venus in Aquarius · 17°51′♀17°Mars in Gemini · 14°10′ · retrograde♂℞14°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°13′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Scorpio · 26°44′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 27°12′♅27°Neptune in Gemini · 18°25′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Gemini · 12°19′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Louis’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Louis’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.7° to 2.0° orb

    Louis’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.1° orb

    Louis’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenustrineMars3.0° to 4.4° orb

    Louis’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.2° to 4.2° orb

    Louis’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.6° to 5.0° orb

    Louis’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.8° to 4.1° orb

    Louis’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.4° orb

    Louis’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.1° orb

    Louis’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.1° orb

    Louis’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Louis’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.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 10°47′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Louis carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 28°22′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Louis is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 17°45′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Louis is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 25°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Louis feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Louis is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Eros trine Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.6°

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°).

Louis’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. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Louis is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Louis’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Louis Bromfield, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Louis’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Louis Bromfield, 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

Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q500042, 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Louis Bromfield 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Louis Bromfield.

Quick answers about Louis Bromfield’s chart

What zodiac sign was Louis Bromfield?
Louis Bromfield was a Capricorn: born December 27, 1896, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
What was Louis Bromfield's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 27, 1896 birth.
What time was Louis Bromfield 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 was Louis Bromfield's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 27, 1896 birth date.
What was Louis Bromfield's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 27, 1896 birth date.
Where was Louis Bromfield's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Louis Bromfield's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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