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Talbot Hamlin

Talbot Hamlin (born June 16, 1889, New York City, United States; died 1956), was an American architect, professor, and librarian. Hamlin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Talbot Hamlin’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Talbot Hamlin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~461

Americans share it since 1913

1969

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Talbot falls under that line for 1889. Its peak came in 1969, and 461 Americans have carried it since 1913.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Talbot’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on T (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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

Talbot’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

The record

What sets Talbot apart

Tupac Shakur (1971) and Barbara McClintock (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Talbot, according to the stars

Core essence

Talbot is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Talbot needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Talbot needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Talbot needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Talbot wants to be loved

Talbot 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 Talbot is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Talbot creates

How Talbot makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Talbot creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Talbot 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Talbot is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

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

Computed from Talbot's birth date. Working below.

Where Talbot sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Talbot

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Talbot

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

PrivateExpressive
Talbot

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Talbot

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Talbot

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Talbot

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 13.2° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.

How unusual Talbot's chart is

Chart pattern score

73 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Venus · No Water planets

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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Talbot Hamlin in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Talbot Hamlin's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Talbot Hamlin was born on June 16, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Talbot Hamlin's birth date, June 16, 1889, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Talbot’s chart

Talbot’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.8° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.2° orbSun in Gemini · 25°40′☉25°Moon in Aquarius · 9°29′☽9°Mercury in Gemini · 29°51′ · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Taurus · 12°40′♀12°Mars in Gemini · 26°03′♂26°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°25′ · retrograde♃℞4°Saturn in Leo · 16°43′♄16°Uranus in Libra · 17°54′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Gemini · 2°55′♆2°Pluto in Gemini · 5°55′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.2° to 0.5° orb

    Talbot’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Talbot’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.0° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.4° to 4.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.2° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air7 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Talbot’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 11°44′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 18°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 15°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 14°24′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.7°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.3°
  • Eros trine Venus 2.9°

Talbot’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Talbot’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.9°

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Talbot’s cards

Computed from June 16, 1889. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Talbot’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q27506055 (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 Amherst College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Talbot Hamlin at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Talbot Hamlin.

Quick answers about Talbot Hamlin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Talbot Hamlin?
Talbot Hamlin was a Gemini: born June 16, 1889, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Talbot Hamlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1889 birth.
What was Talbot Hamlin's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Talbot Hamlin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Talbot Hamlin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Talbot Hamlin's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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