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Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison (born July 9, 1887, Boston, United States; died 1976), was an United States admiral and historian. Morison's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Bancroft Prize.

Samuel Eliot Morison’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Samuel Eliot Morison’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Samuel in the U.S.?

#18

US rank in 2025

~823,085

Americans share it since 1880

2001

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

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What the chart says

Samuel, according to the stars

Core essence

Samuel feels the room before entering it. The core of Samuel is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Samuel, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Samuel is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Samuel needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Samuel wants to be loved

Samuel wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Samuel and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Samuel creates

How Samuel 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. Samuel 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: Samuel is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Samuel is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Samuel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Samuel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Samuel sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Samuel

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Samuel

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Samuel

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Samuel

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Samuel

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Samuel

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Dedicate a star to Samuel Eliot Morison

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Samuel’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 75.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 21.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Samuel Eliot Morison's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Fire Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Samuel Eliot Morison was born on July 9, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 22

Structure for the many.

Samuel Eliot Morison's birth date, July 9, 1887, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Samuel’s chart

Samuel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Samuel Eliot Morison, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.5° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.9° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.4° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.1° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Cancer · 17°06′☉17°Moon in Pisces · 7°53′☽7°Mercury in Leo · 10°56′☿10°Venus in Virgo · 2°35′♀2°Mars in Gemini · 28°07′♂28°Jupiter in Libra · 26°23′♃26°Saturn in Cancer · 24°54′♄24°Uranus in Libra · 8°36′♅8°Neptune in Taurus · 29°17′♆29°Pluto in Gemini · 4°29′♇4°

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.

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Square 90°
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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.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

    Samuel’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter1.4° to 2.1° orb

    Samuel’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Samuel’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 2.5° orb

    Samuel’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

    Samuel’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb

    Samuel’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextileMars4.3° to 4.6° orb

    Samuel’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Samuel’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.2° orb

    Samuel’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Samuel’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.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 27°11′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Samuel turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ CeresAries 19°50′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Samuel looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 27°09′ (moves 0.48° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Samuel is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 5°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Samuel at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°34′ (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 Samuel 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.

  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 0.9°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.1°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.2°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.7°

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°).

Samuel’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. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Samuel is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Samuel’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.

  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Samuel Eliot Morison, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Samuel’s cards

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Samuel Eliot Morison, 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

Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q982883, 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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Samuel Eliot Morison 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 Samuel Eliot Morison’s chart

What zodiac sign was Samuel Eliot Morison?
Samuel Eliot Morison was a Cancer: born July 9, 1887, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
What was Samuel Eliot Morison's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1887 birth.
What time was Samuel Eliot Morison 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 Samuel Eliot Morison's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the July 9, 1887 birth date.
What was Samuel Eliot Morison's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 9, 1887 birth date.
Where was Samuel Eliot Morison's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Samuel Eliot Morison's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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