Russel B. Nye
Russel B. Nye (born February 17, 1913, Viola, United States; died 1993), was an American academic. Nye's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Russel B. Nye’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Ox, with 
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Russel B. Nye’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 Russel in the U.S.?
#4020
US rank in 2025
~16,622
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Russel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Russel, according to the stars
Core essence
Russel is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Russel 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Russel is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Russel needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Russel wants to be loved
Russel wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Russel creates
How Russel 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. Russel 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: Russel is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Russel 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 Russel 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 Russel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Russel sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Russel B. Nye's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 17, 1913, 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.
Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Russel B. Nye was born on February 17, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Russel B. Nye's birth date, February 17, 1913, 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 Russel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Russel B. Nye's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Russel B. Nye 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.
Russel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Russel B. Nye, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Cancer 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.
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Russel’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.5° to 1.4° orb
Russel’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.9° to 1.6° orb
Russel’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.4° to 5.2° orb
Russel’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.3° orb
Russel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° orb
Russel’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.0° to 5.8° orb
Russel’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.4° orb
Russel’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.0° to 5.8° orb
Russel’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.8° to 6.5° orb
Russel’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Russel’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 9°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Russel absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°08′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Russel is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAries 7°17′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Russel is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 3°30′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Russel feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Russel at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.4°
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°).
Russel’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 Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Russel 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 Russel’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Russel B. Nye, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Russel’s cards
Every card is computed from February 17, 1913, 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
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Russel B. Nye, 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
Russel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7381271, 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.
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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 Russel B. Nye’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Russel B. Nye?
- Russel B. Nye was an Aquarius: born February 17, 1913, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
- What was Russel B. Nye's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1913 birth.
- What time was Russel B. Nye 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 Russel B. Nye's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 17, 1913 birth date.
- What was Russel B. Nye's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 17, 1913 birth date.
- Where was Russel B. Nye's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Russel B. Nye's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
