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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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
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 · 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
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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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Louis LaCoss in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. 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
- 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
No documented birth time exists for Louis LaCoss, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Louis’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars1.4° to 2.2° orb
Louis’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.9° orb
Louis’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.2° orb
Louis’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.3° to 4.7° orb
Louis’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussextileMars4.0° to 4.7° orb
Louis’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.6° to 6.0° orb
Louis’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.7° to 7.0° orb
Louis’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 19°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Louis is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 17°06′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Louis is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAquarius 28°45′ (moves 0.61° 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.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Louis is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Louis guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ 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
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.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Louis LaCoss, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Louis’s cards
Every card is computed from January 8, 1890, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Louis LaCoss, 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 Q16067451, 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.
The same Louis LaCoss at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Louis LaCoss 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 LaCoss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 8, 1890 birth date.
- What was Louis LaCoss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 8, 1890 birth date.
- 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.
