Ralph McGill
Ralph McGill (born February 5, 1898, Hamilton County, United States; died 1969), was an American journalist. McGill's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism.
Ralph McGill’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dog, with 
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Ralph McGill’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ralph in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~415,858
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Ralph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ralph, according to the stars
Core essence
Ralph is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ralph is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Ralph wants to be loved
Ralph wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Ralph be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Ralph creates
How Ralph 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. Ralph 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: Ralph is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ralph 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ralph does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Ralph's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ralph sits
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Ralph McGill's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1898, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Dog
Earth DogGuards the gate all night.
Ralph McGill was born on February 5, 1898, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Ralph McGill's birth date, February 5, 1898, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ralph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ralph McGill's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Ralph McGill combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Ralph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ralph McGill, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.6° to 0.7° orb
Ralph’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
Ralph’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.1° orb
Ralph’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.4° to 2.6° orb
Ralph’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
Ralph’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Ralph’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.6° orb
Ralph’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
Ralph’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrinePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
Ralph’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
Ralph’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenustrineNeptune4.8° to 6.0° orb
Ralph’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
Ralph’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Ralph’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 28°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Ralph carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 28°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ralph feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°24′ (moves 0.61° 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. Ralph is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 26°21′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ralph needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Ralph that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Ralph’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. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ralph is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Ralph’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.
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ralph McGill, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Ralph’s cards
Every card is computed from February 5, 1898, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ralph McGill, 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
Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7287845, 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 Timtempleton, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ralph McGill 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 Ralph McGill’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ralph McGill?
- Ralph McGill was an Aquarius: born February 5, 1898, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog.
- What was Ralph McGill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1898 birth.
- What time was Ralph McGill 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 Ralph McGill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 5, 1898 birth date.
- What was Ralph McGill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 5, 1898 birth date.
- Where was Ralph McGill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ralph McGill's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
