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Oliver Waterman Larkin

Oliver Waterman Larkin (born August 17, 1896, Medford, United States; died 1970), was an American art historian. Larkin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.

Oliver Waterman Larkin’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Oliver Waterman Larkin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

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

#3

US rank in 2025

~270,680

Americans share it since 1880

2024

its peak year

The SSA recorded 194 American boys named Oliver in 1896: 99th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Oliver’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Oliver’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Oliver apart

The Pulitzer Prize for History came in 1950, when Oliver Waterman Larkin was 54.

Study took Oliver Waterman Larkin to Harvard University.

Wikipedia files Oliver Waterman Larkin under People from Medford, Massachusetts, American art historians and Smith College faculty.

Robert De Niro (1943) and Herta Müller (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Harvard University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (1950)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
5

What the chart says

Oliver, according to the stars

Core essence

Oliver is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Oliver is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Oliver is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Oliver needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Oliver wants to be loved

Oliver wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Oliver and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Oliver creates

How Oliver makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Oliver creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Oliver 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Oliver is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Oliver scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Oliver's birth date. Working below.

Where Oliver sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Oliver

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Oliver

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Oliver

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Oliver

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Oliver

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Oliver

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Medford on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Oliver’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Medford that night

Computed for 42.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Medford at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Medford sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Medford at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 74% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Medford, United States

The death is recorded at Northampton, Hampshire County in 1970.

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

How unusual Oliver's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all

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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Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Oliver Waterman Larkin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 17, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Oliver Waterman Larkin was born on August 17, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 22

The cathedral builder.

Oliver Waterman Larkin's birth date, August 17, 1896, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Oliver’s chart

Oliver’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.6° orbSun in Leo · 25°13′☉25°Moon in Sagittarius · 18°42′☽18°Mercury in Virgo · 11°07′☿11°Venus in Virgo · 6°01′♀6°Mars in Gemini · 0°58′♂0°Jupiter in Leo · 21°15′♃21°Saturn in Scorpio · 13°18′♄13°Uranus in Scorpio · 20°36′♅20°Neptune in Gemini · 19°57′♆19°Pluto in Gemini · 13°37′♇13°

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

  • stableJupitersquareUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb

    Oliver’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° to 1.4° orb

    Oliver’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.4° to 3.0° orb

    Oliver’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.7° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.9° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.3° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 23°50′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 5°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 20°27′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°41′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.5°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°

Oliver’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Oliver’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.

  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.7°

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Oliver’s cards

Computed from August 17, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Oliver’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3881815 (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.

The same Oliver Waterman Larkin at Wikipedia.

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Quick answers about Oliver Waterman Larkin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Oliver Waterman Larkin?
Oliver Waterman Larkin was a Leo: born August 17, 1896, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Oliver Waterman Larkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 17, 1896 birth.
What was Oliver Waterman Larkin's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Oliver Waterman Larkin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Oliver Waterman Larkin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Oliver Waterman Larkin's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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