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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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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 Social Security Administration public records
Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Nicholas sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Nicholas Murray Butler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Taurus 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.
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
Nicholas’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.1° orb
Nicholas’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.5° orb
Nicholas’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb
Nicholas’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
Nicholas’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Nicholas absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 15°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Nicholas is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosTaurus 21°54′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Nicholas wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°20′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Nicholas needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Nicholas is read as immovable on those points.
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 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°
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°).
Nicholas’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Nicholas is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Nicholas’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.
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 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.
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nicholas Murray Butler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nicholas’s cards
Every card is computed from April 2, 1862, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Nicholas Murray Butler, 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
Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271517, 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.
Portrait by Auguste Léon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicholas Murray Butler at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- 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 time was Nicholas Murray Butler 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 Nicholas Murray Butler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 2, 1862 birth date.
- What was Nicholas Murray Butler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 2, 1862 birth date.
- 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.
