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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 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.?

outside the current top list

~461

Americans share it since 1880

1969

its peak year

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Talbot’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Talbot sits

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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.

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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

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. 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 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Talbot Hamlin's birth date, June 16, 1889, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Talbot’s chart

Talbot’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Talbot Hamlin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Mercury in Gemini · 29°51′ · retrograde29°Venus in Taurus · 12°40′12°Mars in Gemini · 26°03′26°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°25′ · retrogradeSaturn in Leo · 16°43′16°Uranus in Libra · 17°54′ · retrograde17°Neptune in Gemini · 2°55′Pluto in Gemini · 5°55′

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.

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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.

  • 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

    Talbot’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.9° orb

    Talbot’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb

    Talbot’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.4° to 4.8° orb

    Talbot’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Talbot is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

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

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Talbot is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosCapricorn 15°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Talbot is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaCapricorn 14°24′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Talbot is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Talbot that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Talbot’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Talbot is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Talbot’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, 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 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 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Talbot Hamlin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Talbot’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

yin Earth

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Water

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Talbot Hamlin, 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

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

The same Talbot Hamlin 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
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 time was Talbot Hamlin 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 Talbot Hamlin's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 16, 1889 birth date.
What was Talbot Hamlin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 16, 1889 birth date.
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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