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, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Russel
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
Of the names registered in 1913, Russel came 283rd, carried by 196 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Russel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Russel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Russel apart
Michael Jordan (1963) and Paris Hilton (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Russel sits
Six lines
Russel’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Viola 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 Viola that night
Computed for 43.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Viola at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 43.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Viola at all: they sit past the −46.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon up and 87% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Russel's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus · 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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Cancer 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
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.0° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.0° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.8° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 9°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°08′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 7°17′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°30′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Russel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Russel’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.
- 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°
More people like Russel
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- Jerome WeidmanAmerican writer
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Fellow Aquarius suns
- Ji'Ayir BrownAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Garret WallowAmerican football linebacker
- Jon WeeksAmerican football player
Born in Ox years
- Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
- Rooney MaraAmerican actress
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
Also born on February 17
- Michael Jordan1963
- Paris Hilton1981
- Billie Joe Armstrong1972
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt1981
- Bonnie Wright1991
- Denise Richards1971
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Margaret ChoAmerican comedian and actress (born 1968)
- Robert CarradineAmerican actor
- Deon ColeAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Other Aquarius Ox charts
- Cathy FreemanAustralian short-distance runner
- Bella PoarchFilipino-American singer and social media personality
- Lauren ConradAmerican television personality, author, and fashion designer
- Anderson .PaakAmerican singer, rapper, drummer, and record producer
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Benny CarterAmerican jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader
- Gloria GaynorAmerican singer
- Quincy JonesAmerican record producer and composer
- Maria TallchiefAmerican ballerina
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Rob RiggleAmerican actor
- Tony ParkerFrench basketball player (born 1982)
- John OliverBritish-American comedian and television host
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Russel’s cards
Computed from February 17, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Russel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7381271 (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.
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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.
- 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 was Russel B. Nye's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Russel B. Nye's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
