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Malcolm Waite

Malcolm Waite (born May 7, 1892, Menominee, United States; died 1949), was an American actor.

Malcolm Waite’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Malcolm Waite’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#272

US rank in 2025

~70,328

Americans share it since 1880

1992

its peak year

Malcolm ranked 344th in 1892, the year of this birth, with 30 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malcolm’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on M (4) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Malcolm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

The record

What sets Malcolm apart

Wikipedia's editors put Malcolm Waite under Male actors from Michigan and American male film actors.

The same date carries Archibald MacLeish. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
8

What the chart says

Malcolm, according to the stars

Core essence

Malcolm is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Malcolm is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Malcolm wants to be loved

Malcolm wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Malcolm gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Malcolm creates

How Malcolm 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. Malcolm 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: Malcolm is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Malcolm is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Malcolm goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Malcolm's birth date. Working below.

Where Malcolm sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Malcolm

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malcolm

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Malcolm

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malcolm

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

PracticalVisionary
Malcolm

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malcolm

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Malcolm Waite

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Menominee 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 Menominee that night

Computed for 45.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Menominee was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 80.9° up.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 45.1°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Menominee at all: they sit past the −44.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 87% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Menominee, United States

The death is recorded at Van Nuys, Los Angeles in 1949.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Malcolm Waite: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Malcolm's chart is

Chart pattern score

12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Malcolm Waite's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Malcolm Waite was born on May 7, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Malcolm Waite's birth date, May 7, 1892, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Malcolm’s chart

Malcolm’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.4° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 5.5° orbSun in Taurus · 17°36′☉17°Moon in Libra · 1°49′☽1°Mercury in Aries · 24°54′☿24°Venus in Cancer · 2°52′♀2°Mars in Aquarius · 0°23′♂0°Jupiter in Aries · 12°10′♃12°Saturn in Virgo · 23°35′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Scorpio · 3°28′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Gemini · 7°56′♆7°Pluto in Gemini · 7°51′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Malcolm’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb

    Malcolm’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.1° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.8° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn5.5° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.3° to 14.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Malcolm’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 12°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 23°42′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 5°39′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 19°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.8°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°

Malcolm’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Malcolm’s chart

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

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 2.0°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 2.5°

Born the same day as Malcolm

Archibald MacLeish was born on May 7, 1892 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 Menominee, at 45.1°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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Malcolm’s cards

Computed from May 7, 1892. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malcolm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3281729 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Malcolm Waite 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 Malcolm Waite.

Quick answers about Malcolm Waite’s chart

What zodiac sign was Malcolm Waite?
Malcolm Waite was a Taurus: born May 7, 1892, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Malcolm Waite's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1892 birth.
What was Malcolm Waite's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Malcolm Waite's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Malcolm Waite's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Malcolm Waite's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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