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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ray sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ray Stannard Baker, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
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
Ray’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb
Ray’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.6° to 4.7° orb
Ray’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.2° orb
Ray’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextilePluto4.0° to 4.7° orb
Ray’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus5.1° to 5.9° orb
Ray’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.6° to 7.8° orb
Ray’s core identity and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 4°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ray may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 13°28′ (moves 0.38° 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 Ray feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 29°40′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Ray is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.26° 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 Ray needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Ray carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Ray’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Ray is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Ray’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 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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ray Stannard Baker, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ray’s cards
Every card is computed from April 17, 1870, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ray Stannard Baker, 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
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2133979, 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 Uncredited Bain News Service photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Stannard Baker 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was Ray Stannard Baker 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 Ray Stannard Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 17, 1870 birth date.
- What was Ray Stannard Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 17, 1870 birth date.
- 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.
