Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman (born April 21, 1882, Cambridge, United States; died 1961), was an American physicist. Bridgman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Comstock Prize in Physics and Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship.
Percy Williams Bridgman’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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Percy Williams Bridgman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Percy in the U.S.?
#1279
US rank in 2025
~32,840
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Percy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Percy, according to the stars
Core essence
Percy is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Percy is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Percy processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Percy needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Percy wants to be loved
Percy wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Percy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Percy creates
How Percy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Percy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Percy is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Percy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Percy does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Percy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Percy Williams Bridgman in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Percy Williams Bridgman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 21, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Horse
Water HorseBright, restless, warm.
Percy Williams Bridgman was born on April 21, 1882, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Percy Williams Bridgman's birth date, April 21, 1882, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Percy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Percy Williams Bridgman's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Percy Williams Bridgman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Percy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Percy Williams Bridgman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Gemini 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.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 1.3° orb
Percy’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 2.2° orb
Percy’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Percy’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus1.0° to 2.2° orb
Percy’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb
Percy’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
Percy’s growth and depths act as one.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.9° orb
Percy’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb
Percy’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 5.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileMarsorb from 4.6° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Percy’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 21°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Percy building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 4°09′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Percy is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°09′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Percy is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Percy at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Percy exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 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°).
Percy’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. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn3 pts
3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Percy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Percy’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 in Taurus · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Percy Williams Bridgman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Percy’s cards
Every card is computed from April 21, 1882, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Percy Williams Bridgman, 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
Percy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q172118, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Percy Williams Bridgman 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 Percy Williams Bridgman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Percy Williams Bridgman?
- Percy Williams Bridgman was a Taurus: born April 21, 1882, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1882 birth.
- What time was Percy Williams Bridgman 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 Percy Williams Bridgman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 21, 1882 birth date.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 21, 1882 birth date.
- Where was Percy Williams Bridgman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
