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Ralph Bunche

Ralph Bunche (born August 7, 1904, Detroit, United States; died 1971), was a Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner. Bunche held office as chairperson. Bunche's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Peace Prize and Spingarn Medal.

Ralph Bunche’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Ralph Bunche’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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

In 1904, 899 American boys were registered Ralph — 28th on the SSA's list that year.

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

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

2 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

The record

What sets Ralph apart

Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ralph, according to the stars

Core essence

Ralph is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ralph is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Ralph 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 Ralph needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Ralph wants to be loved

Ralph 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 Ralph openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Ralph creates

How Ralph makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ralph creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Ralph 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Ralph is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Ralph

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ralph

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Ralph

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ralph

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Ralph

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ralph

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ralph Bunche

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ralph’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 17.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 16% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.

How unusual Ralph's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Ralph Bunche's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Ralph Bunche was born on August 7, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Ralph Bunche's birth date, August 7, 1904, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Ralph’s chart

Ralph’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.1° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.4° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 14°44′☉14°Moon in Gemini · 22°55′☽22°Mercury in Virgo · 9°11′☿9°Venus in Leo · 23°08′♀23°Mars in Cancer · 25°12′♂25°Jupiter in Aries · 29°57′♃29°Saturn in Aquarius · 17°53′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Sagittarius · 26°17′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Cancer · 7°05′♆7°Pluto in Gemini · 21°22′♇21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.2° to 2.4° orb

    Ralph’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune1.4° to 2.8° orb

    Ralph’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.5° to 3.8° orb

    Ralph’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.5° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto4.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Ralph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 26°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°43′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 2°56′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 2°19′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Mercury 0.5°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Eros square Jupiter 3.0°

Ralph’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Ralph’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 quintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.1°

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Ralph’s cards

Computed from August 7, 1904. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213500 (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 U.S. Information Agency., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ralph Bunche 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 Ralph Bunche.

Quick answers about Ralph Bunche’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ralph Bunche?
Ralph Bunche was a Leo: born August 7, 1904, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Ralph Bunche's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1904 birth.
What was Ralph Bunche's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Ralph Bunche's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ralph Bunche's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ralph Bunche's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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