Stephen Bonsal
Stephen Bonsal (born March 29, 1865, Baltimore, United States; died 1951), was an American diplomat. Bonsal's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Stephen Bonsal’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Stephen Bonsal’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Stephen is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Stephen needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Stephen is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Stephen creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Stephen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stephen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Stephen Bonsal in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Stephen Bonsal's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1865, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Ox
Wood OxCarries the load without comment.
Stephen Bonsal was born on March 29, 1865, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Stephen Bonsal's birth date, March 29, 1865, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Bonsal's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Water signs in this chart.
- Stephen Bonsal combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stephen Bonsal, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Taurus 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.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.2° to 0.3° orb
Stephen’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 1.4° orb
Stephen’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.5° to 0.9° orb
Stephen’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.6° to 1.2° orb
Stephen’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
Stephen’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.9° orb
Stephen’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.8° orb
Stephen’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.1° to 6.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryoppositionSaturnorb from 6.7° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenusconjunctionPlutoorb from 7.8° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Stephen’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 16°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Stephen absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Stephen is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 15°50′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Stephen is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaCancer 26°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Stephen is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°05′ (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 Stephen 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.
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.5°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.2°
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°).
Stephen’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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn, Pluto
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Stephen is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Stephen’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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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 semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephen Bonsal, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Stephen’s cards
Every card is computed from March 29, 1865, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stephen Bonsal, 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
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1236721, 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 The American monthly review of reviews, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Bonsal 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 Stephen Bonsal’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stephen Bonsal?
- Stephen Bonsal was an Aries: born March 29, 1865, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Stephen Bonsal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1865 birth.
- What time was Stephen Bonsal 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 Stephen Bonsal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the March 29, 1865 birth date.
- What was Stephen Bonsal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 29, 1865 birth date.
- Where was Stephen Bonsal'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 Stephen Bonsal's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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