Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker (born April 17, 1870, Lansing, United States; died 1946), was an American journalist. Baker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Ray Stannard Baker’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ray
Ray Stannard Baker’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ray in the U.S.?
#792
US rank in 2025
~210,307
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
The earliest American count for Ray is 1880, 10 years on: 95th among boys and 668th among girls, 142 American boys and 8 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ray’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ray apart
Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Ray is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ray, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Ray creates
How Ray makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ray 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: Ray 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ray is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ray leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ray gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ray's birth date. Working below.
Where Ray sits
Six lines
Ray’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Ray Stannard Baker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lansing 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 Lansing that night
Computed for 41.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lansing at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lansing on any night.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon down and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Ray's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · No Air planets · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Ray Stannard Baker's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1870, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Ray Stannard Baker was born on April 17, 1870, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Ray Stannard Baker's birth date, April 17, 1870, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Stannard Baker's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Ray Stannard Baker combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Scorpio or 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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Ray’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
Ray’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb
Ray’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussextilePluto4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.1° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars7.6° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Ray’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 4°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 13°28′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 29°40′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Venus 0.8°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.9°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.8°
Ray’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Ray’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.4°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Ray’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Anya Taylor-JoyActress
- Vivienne WestwoodBritish fashion designer
- Haile GebrselassieEthiopian long-distance runner and businessman
Born in Horse years
- Im Yoon-ahSouth Korean singer and actress
- Dikembe MutomboCongolese-American basketball player
- Gaten MatarazzoAmerican actor
Also born on April 17
- Victoria Beckham1974
- Jennifer Garner1972
- J. P. Morgan1837
- Rooney Mara1985
- Olivia Hussey1951
- Maynard James Keenan1964
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jennifer HudsonAmerican singer, actress, model and spokesperson
- Mamie GummerAmerican actress
- Kate GosselinAmerican television personality
Other Aries Horse charts
- Kyle HowardAmerican actor
- Kevin FederlineAmerican rapper and entertainer (born 1978)
- Sheinelle JonesAmerican journalist, news anchor and correspondent
- Becca KufrinAmerican television personality
Other Tidal Strategists
- Joy-Anna DuggarAmerican reality television participant and daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar
- Keri HilsonAmerican R&B singer
- Kimberly GuilfoyleAmerican attorney and political campaign advisor (born 1969)
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Howard TaylerAmerican writer and webcartoonist
- Arkady MartineAmerican science fiction author and historian (born 1985)
- L. Sprague de CampAmerican non- and speculative fiction writer
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Ray’s cards
Computed from April 17, 1870. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2133979 (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 Uncredited Bain News Service photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Stannard Baker at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ray Stannard Baker.
Quick answers about Ray Stannard Baker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Stannard Baker?
- Ray Stannard Baker was an Aries: born April 17, 1870, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Ray Stannard Baker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1870 birth.
- What was Ray Stannard Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ray Stannard Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ray Stannard Baker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Stannard Baker's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
