Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis (born October 20, 1891, Worcester, United States; died 1973), was an American historian. Bemis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Pulitzer Prize for History and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Samuel Flagg Bemis’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Samuel
Samuel Flagg Bemis’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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 753 American boys and 6 girls named Samuel in 1891: 20th among boys and 1,316th among girls 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Samuel apart
The Pulitzer Prize for History came in 1927, when Samuel Flagg Bemis was 36.
The schooling ran through Clark University and Harvard University.
Wikipedia files Samuel Flagg Bemis under Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University alumni and Historians of American foreign relations.
James Chadwick shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Clark University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1950), Pulitzer Prize for History (1927) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1954)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Samuel, according to the stars
Core essence
Samuel makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Samuel is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Samuel processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Samuel needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Samuel wants to be loved
Samuel wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Samuel even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Samuel creates
How Samuel 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. Samuel 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: Samuel is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Samuel is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Samuel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Samuel Flagg Bemis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worcester 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 Worcester that night
Computed for 42.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Worcester was Scheat, in Pegasus, 75.1° up.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Worcester sits at 42.3°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 Worcester at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 84% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Worcester, United States
The death is recorded at Bridgeport, Fairfield County in 1973.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Samuel Flagg Bemis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Samuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Samuel Flagg Bemis's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1891, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Samuel Flagg Bemis was born on October 20, 1891, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Samuel Flagg Bemis's birth date, October 20, 1891, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Samuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Samuel Flagg Bemis' date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Fire.
- Samuel Flagg Bemis combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Samuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Gemini 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
stableJupitersquarePluto0.1° orb
Samuel’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
Samuel’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° orb
Samuel’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.4° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.9° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Samuel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 16°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°49′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 11°46′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°49′ (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 Mars 1.6°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.2°
- Ceres trine Mercury 3.0°
Samuel’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
Born the same day as Samuel
James Chadwick was born on October 20, 1891 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Worcester, at 42.3°N, nothing below −47.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Samuel’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1891. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3946617 (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 Samuel Flagg Bemis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Samuel Flagg Bemis?
- Samuel Flagg Bemis was a Libra: born October 20, 1891, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Samuel Flagg Bemis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1891 birth.
- What was Samuel Flagg Bemis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Samuel Flagg Bemis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Samuel Flagg Bemis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Samuel Flagg Bemis's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
