Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Barton Perry (born July 3, 1876, Poultney, United States; died 1957), was an American philosopher. Perry's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Ralph Barton Perry’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ralph
Ralph Barton Perry’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Ralph in the U.S.?
#1048
US rank in 2025
~415,858
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The earliest American count for Ralph is 1880, 4 years on: 54th, 317 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ralph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ralph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Ralph apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1936, when Ralph Barton Perry was 60.
Ralph Barton Perry was taught at Princeton University and Harvard University.
Ralph Barton Perry lies at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Wikipedia files Ralph Barton Perry under American metaphysics writers, Analytic philosophers and Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Franz Kafka (1883) and Julian Assange (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1936)
- Buried at
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Ralph, according to the stars
Core essence
Ralph feels the room before entering it. The core of Ralph 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 Ralph, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ralph 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 Ralph 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 Ralph wants to be loved
Ralph 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. Ralph gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ralph creates
How Ralph makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ralph 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: Ralph is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ralph is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ralph 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 Ralph's birth date. Working below.
Where Ralph sits
Six lines
Ralph’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Ralph Barton Perry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Poultney 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 Poultney that night
Computed for 43.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Poultney at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.4° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Poultney sits at 43.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Poultney on any night.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Poultney, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 1957.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ralph Barton Perry: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ralph's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Uranus · 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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Ralph Barton Perry's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 3, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rat
Fire RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Ralph Barton Perry was born on July 3, 1876, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Ralph Barton Perry's birth date, July 3, 1876, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Ralph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ralph Barton Perry's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Ralph Barton Perry combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Ralph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Sagittarius 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
stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Ralph’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Ralph’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.9° to 2.6° orb
Ralph’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.4° to 5.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ralph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 29°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 0°44′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 0°55′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 9°53′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Chiron square Venus 1.8°
- Ceres square Venus 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°
Ralph’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Ralph’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
More people like Ralph
Other authors
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- Saul Bellow1915
- Frédéric Passy1822
- Jeff Prucher1971
- F. Sherwood Rowland1927
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Born in United States
- Edwin Carlile LitseyAmerican writer from Kentucky
- James Larkin PearsonAmerican poet, newspaper publisher
- Zona GaleAmerican author and playwright
- Henry JamesAmerican biographer
- Charles IvesAmerican modernist composer
- James Truslow AdamsAmerican writer and historian
More charts like Ralph’s
Fellow Cancer suns
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- Kevin De BruyneBelgian association football player
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Born in Rat years
- Jörn RausingSwedish businessman
- Abdul Samad RabiuNigerian businessman
- Anders Holch PovlsenDanish businessman
Also born on July 3
- Franz Kafka1883
- Julian Assange1971
- Tom Cruise1962
- Winston Reid1988
- Fei-Fei Li1976
- Andrea Barber1976
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Casey NeistatAmerican YouTube personality, filmmaker and entrepreneur
- BeabadoobeFilipino singer
- Françoise Bettencourt MeyersFrench businesswoman, billionaire
Other Cancer Rat charts
- Derek BarnettAmerican football player
- Khyiris TongaAmerican football defensive tackle
- David NjokuAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Alec IngoldAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Ryan RollinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Fred VanVleetAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jaime Jaquez Jr.Mexican-American basketball player
- Scotty Pippen Jr.American basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Victor BorgeDanish comedian and pianist
- Mikhail BaryshnikovLatvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
- Carmen De LavalladeAmerican dancer
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Ralph’s cards
Computed from July 3, 1876. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q32679 (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 authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ralph Barton Perry at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ralph Barton Perry.
Quick answers about Ralph Barton Perry’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ralph Barton Perry?
- Ralph Barton Perry was a Cancer: born July 3, 1876, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Ralph Barton Perry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 3, 1876 birth.
- What was Ralph Barton Perry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ralph Barton Perry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ralph Barton Perry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ralph Barton Perry's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
