Roy Franklin Nichols
Roy Franklin Nichols (born March 3, 1896, Newark, United States; died 1973), was an American historian. Nichols's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Fulbright Scholarship and Athenaeum Literary Award.
Roy Franklin Nichols’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Roy
Roy Franklin Nichols’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Roy in the U.S.?
#525
US rank in 2025
~411,331
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1896, 1,027 American boys were registered Roy — 19th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The record
What sets Roy apart
Alexander Graham Bell (1847) and Jessica Biel (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Roy, according to the stars
Core essence
Roy feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Roy is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Roy feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Roy needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Roy wants to be loved
Roy 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 Roy be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Roy creates
How Roy makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Roy creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Roy is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Roy is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Computed from Roy's birth date. Working below.
Where Roy sits
Six lines
Roy’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Roy Franklin Nichols
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newark 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 Newark that night
Computed for 40.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Newark was Castor, in Gemini, 80.1° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Newark sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon down and 76% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Roy's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · Only two elements
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
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Roy Franklin Nichols's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 3, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Roy Franklin Nichols was born on March 3, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Roy Franklin Nichols's birth date, March 3, 1896, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Roy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roy Franklin Nichols' date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Roy Franklin Nichols combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Roy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° Scorpio 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
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Roy’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Roy’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb
Roy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire or Earth signs.
Roy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 26°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°05′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°45′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 23°43′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.6°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.6°
Roy’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Roy’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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Roy’s cards
Computed from March 3, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3942008 (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.
The same Roy Franklin Nichols at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roy Franklin Nichols.
Quick answers about Roy Franklin Nichols’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roy Franklin Nichols?
- Roy Franklin Nichols was a Pisces: born March 3, 1896, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Roy Franklin Nichols's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 3, 1896 birth.
- What was Roy Franklin Nichols's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roy Franklin Nichols's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Roy Franklin Nichols's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roy Franklin Nichols's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
