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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~823,085
Americans share it since 1880
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Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Samuel sits
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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.
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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.
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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Samuel Flagg Bemis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Gemini 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.
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
Samuel’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
Samuel’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb
Samuel’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
Samuel’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.4° orb
Samuel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 16°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Samuel performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Samuel is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 19°49′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Samuel is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 11°46′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Samuel needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Samuel that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 Mars 1.6°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.2°
- Ceres trine Mercury 3.0°
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. ♀ 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
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Samuel Flagg Bemis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Samuel
James Chadwick was born on October 20, 1891 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Samuel’s cards
Every card is computed from October 20, 1891, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Samuel Flagg Bemis, 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 Q3946617, 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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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit.
- 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 time was Samuel Flagg Bemis 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 Flagg Bemis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 20, 1891 birth date.
- What was Samuel Flagg Bemis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 20, 1891 birth date.
- 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.
