Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck (born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, United States; died 1973), was a Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary. Buck is best remembered for Sons, Letter from Peking and Fighting Angel. Buck's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and National Women's Hall of Fame.
Pearl S. Buck’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Pearl
Pearl S. Buck’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Pearl in the U.S.?
#777
US rank in 2025
~163,010
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1892, Pearl came 26th among girls and 296th among boys, carried by 1,831 American girls and 39 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pearl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
Pearl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Pearl apart
Ariana Grande (1993) and Aubrey Plaza (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Pearl, according to the stars
Core essence
Pearl feels the room before entering it. The core of Pearl is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Pearl, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Pearl wants to be loved
Pearl 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. Pearl gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Pearl creates
How Pearl makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Pearl creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Pearl is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Pearl is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Pearl goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Pearl's birth date. Working below.
Where Pearl sits
Six lines
Pearl’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Pearl S. Buck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hillsboro 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 Hillsboro that night
Computed for 38.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hillsboro was Izar, in Boötes, 78.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hillsboro on any night.
The Moon, 8% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
How unusual Pearl's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Venus retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Pearl S. Buck at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Pearl S. Buck's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 26, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Pearl S. Buck's birth date, June 26, 1892, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Pearl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pearl S. Buck's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Pearl S. Buck combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Pearl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileSaturn0.3° to 0.7° orb
Pearl’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.8° orb
Pearl’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
Pearl’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.1° to 3.6° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.6° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.9° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.8° to 18.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Pearl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 16°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 12°01′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 21°27′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°07′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.7°
Pearl’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
2 major aspects
Configurations in Pearl’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.4°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Pearl’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Kevin HartAmerican comedian and actor
- Jocelyn Bell BurnellBritish astrophysicist
- Angelique KidjoBeninese-French world music singer
Born in Dragon years
- John LennonBritish musician
- PeléBrazilian footballer
- Andy WarholAmerican artist, film director, and producer
Also born on June 26
- Ariana Grande1993
- Aubrey Plaza1984
- Jennette McCurdy1992
- Jacob Elordi1997
- Iman Shumpert1990
- Andrew Bachelor1988
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Edith EvansBritish actress
- Tippi HedrenAmerican actress, model and activist
- Miranda RichardsonBritish actress
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Yukinari SugawaraJapanese association football player
- Yunus AkgünTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Eren ElmalıTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Chris OlaveAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Rainn WilsonAmerican actor, comedian, producer, and writer
- Rick RossAmerican rapper and record executive
- Mary-Kate OlsenAmerican businesswoman and actress
- Nicholas GalitzineBritish actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Parker PoseyAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Spencer PrattAmerican television personality
- Emily OsmentAmerican actress and singer
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Pearl’s cards
Computed from June 26, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pearl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80900 (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 Unknown (see print without name, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pearl S. Buck at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pearl S. Buck.
Quick answers about Pearl S. Buck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Pearl S. Buck?
- Pearl S. Buck was a Cancer: born June 26, 1892, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Pearl S. Buck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 26, 1892 birth.
- What was Pearl S. Buck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Pearl S. Buck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Pearl S. Buck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Pearl S. Buck's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
