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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

In 1896, 871 American boys and 9 girls were registered Louis — 22nd among boys and 1,174th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Louis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

11

Soul Urge · insight

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Louis apart

Louis Pasteur (1822) and Salman Khan (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Louis sits

Six lines

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

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

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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 →

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

The sky over Mansfield that night

Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Mansfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 0.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

Mansfield sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mansfield on any night.

The Moon, 44% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

How unusual Louis's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Fire planets · 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.

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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.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Louis Bromfield was born on December 27, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

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.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Louis’s chart

Louis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Libra depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenustrineMars3.0° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.6° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.8° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.1° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Louis’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Louis’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

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Louis’s cards

Computed from December 27, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Louis Bromfield at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Louis Bromfield's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Louis Bromfield's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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