Louis LaCoss
Louis LaCoss (born January 8, 1890, Erie, United States; died 1966), was an American journalist. LaCoss's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
Louis LaCoss’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Louis
Louis LaCoss’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth 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
Louis ranked 19th among boys and 858th among girls in 1890, the year of this birth, with 860 American boys and 11 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
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 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Louis apart
Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) 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 needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Louis needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis 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 Louis you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Louis creates
How Louis 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. Louis 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: Louis 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Louis runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Louis LaCoss
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Erie 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 Erie that night
Computed for 42.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Erie at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Fire 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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Louis LaCoss's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1890, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Louis LaCoss was born on January 8, 1890, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Louis LaCoss's birth date, January 8, 1890, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis LaCoss' date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Louis LaCoss combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.1° to 1.6° orb
Louis’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.7° to 1.3° orb
Louis’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.8° to 1.6° orb
Louis’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.4° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.9° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.3° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.6° to 6.0° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.7° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 3.9° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Louis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 19°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 17°06′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°45′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
Louis’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Louis’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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 sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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Louis’s cards
Computed from January 8, 1890. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16067451 (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 Louis LaCoss.
Quick answers about Louis LaCoss’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Louis LaCoss?
- Louis LaCoss was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1890, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Louis LaCoss's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1890 birth.
- What was Louis LaCoss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Louis LaCoss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Louis LaCoss's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Louis LaCoss's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
