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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

The SSA recorded 802 American boys named Samuel in 1887: 18th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Samuel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

5

Soul Urge · freedom

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Samuel apart

Tom Hanks (1956) and Courtney Love (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Samuel sits

Six lines

Samuel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Boston at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 14.4° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 79% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.

How unusual Samuel's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Pluto · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

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.

What Cancer means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

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What stands out in Samuel’s chart

Samuel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Pisces depending on the hour.

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.2° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Samuel’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Samuel’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.

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

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Samuel’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1887. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

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The Evergreen Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q982883 (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.

Portrait by Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Samuel Eliot Morison.

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.
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 was Samuel Eliot Morison's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Samuel Eliot Morison's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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