Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (born April 2, 1862, Elizabeth, United States; died 1947), was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Goethe Medal for Art and Science and honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg.
Nicholas Murray Butler’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Nicholas
Nicholas Murray Butler’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Nicholas in the U.S.?
#112
US rank in 2025
~929,199
Americans share it since 1880
1995
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 18 years after this birth. In that first year Nicholas ranked 178th, with 73 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nicholas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Nicholas apart
Marvin Gaye (1939) and Alberto Fernández (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Nicholas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicholas leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Nicholas is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicholas is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Nicholas needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Nicholas wants to be loved
Nicholas wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Nicholas, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Nicholas creates
How Nicholas makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Nicholas creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Nicholas is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Nicholas 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Nicholas does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Nicholas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nicholas sits
Six lines
Nicholas’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Nicholas Murray Butler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth that night
Computed for 40.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Elizabeth at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Elizabeth sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Elizabeth on any night.
Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon up and 13% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Nicholas's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Uranus
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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Nicholas Murray Butler's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 2, 1862, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Dog
Water DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Nicholas Murray Butler was born on April 2, 1862, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Nicholas Murray Butler's birth date, April 2, 1862, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Nicholas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nicholas Murray Butler's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Nicholas Murray Butler combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Nicholas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Taurus 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Nicholas’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.3° orb
Nicholas’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.7° to 2.1° orb
Nicholas’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 5.1° to 17.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Nicholas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 15°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 21°54′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°20′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°25′ (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 trine Mars 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.0°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Sun 2.9°
Nicholas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Nicholas’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
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Other Radiant Pioneers
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Nicholas’s cards
Computed from April 2, 1862. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271517 (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 Auguste Léon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicholas Murray Butler 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 Nicholas Murray Butler.
Quick answers about Nicholas Murray Butler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nicholas Murray Butler?
- Nicholas Murray Butler was an Aries: born April 2, 1862, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Nicholas Murray Butler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 2, 1862 birth.
- What was Nicholas Murray Butler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nicholas Murray Butler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nicholas Murray Butler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nicholas Murray Butler's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
