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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Paul
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
Paul ranked 21st among boys and 1,550th among girls in 1899, the year of this birth, with 885 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Paul apart
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Paul sits
Six lines
Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Paul Herman Buck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbus 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 Columbus that night
Computed for 39.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Columbus at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.6° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 70% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Aries or 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
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
stableSunsextileJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.4° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.7° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 7°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 11°28′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 4°49′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 10°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 3.0°
Paul’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Paul’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.4°
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Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
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- Rachel Bilson1981
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Paul’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3898082 (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 Ohio State University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Herman Buck at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Herman Buck.
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.
- 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 was Paul Herman Buck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Herman Buck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
