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Odell Shepard

Odell Shepard (born July 22, 1884, Sterling, United States; died 1967), was an American politician. Shepard held office as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. Shepard's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Odell Shepard’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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

#4495

US rank in 2025

~19,034

Americans share it since 1880

1922

its peak year

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Odell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Botanical green

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Odell, according to the stars

How Odell wants to be loved

Odell 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. Odell gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Odell creates

How Odell makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Odell creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Odell is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Odell 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Odell channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Odell's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

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The quick version

Cancer or Leo Sun

Odell Shepard was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Wood Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Odell Shepard was born on July 22, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Odell Shepard's birth date, July 22, 1884, 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 Odell’s chart

Odell’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Odell Shepard, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Cancer or 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.4° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Leo · 0°15′Moon in Leo · 3°07′Mercury in Leo · 10°44′10°Venus in Cancer · 14°09′ · retrograde14°Mars in Virgo · 26°52′26°Jupiter in Leo · 12°04′12°Saturn in Gemini · 19°37′19°Uranus in Virgo · 25°10′25°Neptune in Taurus · 23°01′23°Pluto in Gemini · 1°54′

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.

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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.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 2.2° orb

    Odell’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.2° to 2.1° orb

    Odell’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Odell’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

    Odell’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsextileMars3.2° to 3.5° orb

    Odell’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.6° to 4.1° orb

    Odell’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrinePluto4.7° to 5.3° orb

    Odell’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb

    Odell’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.7° orb

    Odell’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

Odell’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.

  • ChironGemini 8°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Odell turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresLeo 6°33′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Odell is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosPisces 22°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Odell is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaPisces 6°29′ (moves 0.11° 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 Odell needing solitude to reset.

  • Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Odell leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.6°
  • Eros square Saturn 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°).

Odell’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. 1. Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Odell is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Odell’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, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, 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.

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.7°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Odell Shepard, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Odell’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Temperance

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

yang Wood

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Water

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Odell Shepard, 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

Odell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3349133, 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 Odell Shepard 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Odell Shepard.

Quick answers about Odell Shepard’s chart

What zodiac sign was Odell Shepard?
Odell Shepard was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
What was Odell Shepard's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1884 birth.
What time was Odell Shepard 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 Odell Shepard's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1884 birth date.
What was Odell Shepard's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1884 birth date.
Where was Odell Shepard's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Odell Shepard's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 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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