Paul Herman Buck
Paul Herman Buck (born August 25, 1899, Columbus, United States; died 1978), was an American historian. Buck served as Harvard University Librarian. Buck's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Paul Herman Buck’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Paul Herman Buck’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Paul in the U.S.?
#262
US rank in 2025
~1,404,135
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Paul is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Paul openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Paul creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Paul is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Paul fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Paul Herman Buck in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Paul Herman Buck's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Paul Herman Buck was born on August 25, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Paul Herman Buck's birth date, August 25, 1899, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Herman Buck's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Herman Buck combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Herman Buck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Aries or 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.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.0° to 7.7° orb
Paul’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.5° orb
Paul’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
Paul’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
Paul’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 5.5° orb
Paul’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.4° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.9° orb
Paul’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.4° to 4.8° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.7° to 6.0° orb
Paul’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.6° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Paul’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 7°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Paul building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 11°28′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Paul is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 4°49′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Paul is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLibra 10°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Paul is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Paul is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Paul’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paul 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 Paul’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Herman Buck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Herman Buck, 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
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3898082, 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 Ohio State University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Herman Buck 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.
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Quick answers about Paul Herman Buck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Herman Buck?
- Paul Herman Buck was a Virgo: born August 25, 1899, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Paul Herman Buck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1899 birth.
- What time was Paul Herman Buck 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 Paul Herman Buck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1899 birth date.
- What was Paul Herman Buck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1899 birth date.
- Where was Paul Herman Buck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Herman Buck's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
