Thomas K. McCraw
Thomas K. McCraw (born September 11, 1940, Corinth, United States; died 2012), was an American historian. McCraw's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Thomas K. McCraw’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
Thomas K. McCraw’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Thomas in the U.S.?
#34
US rank in 2025
~2,367,087
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1940, Thomas came 8th among boys and 750th among girls, carried by 23,991 American boys and 86 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Thomas apart
Thomas K. McCraw took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1985, at 45.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Mississippi and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Thomas K. McCraw: People from Corinth, Mississippi, Historians from Mississippi and Harvard Business School faculty.
Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Mississippi and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1985)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Thomas notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Thomas is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Thomas openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Thomas creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Thomas 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Thomas 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 Thomas's birth date. Working below.
Where Thomas sits
Six lines
Thomas’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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Thomas K. McCraw
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Corinth 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 Corinth that night
Computed for 34.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Corinth was Albireo, in Cygnus, 82.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Corinth on any night.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Corinth, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Thomas K. McCraw: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · Only two elements
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Thomas K. McCraw's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Thomas K. McCraw was born on September 11, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Thomas K. McCraw's birth date, September 11, 1940, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas K. McCraw's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thomas K. McCraw combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.8° orb
Thomas’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Thomas’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Thomas’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.1° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter0.6° to 1.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth8 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.
Thomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°36′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 19°20′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°47′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°22′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros square Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.6°
Thomas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Thomas’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
More people like Thomas
Other historians
- Kai Bird1951
- Irwin Unger1927
- David Kertzer1948
- Leon Litwack1929
- Jack N. Rakove1947
- William H. Goetzmann1930
Born in United States
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on September 11
- Taraji P. Henson1970
- Julia Nickson-Soul1958
- Mike Comrie1980
- Charles Kelley1981
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- Harry Connick Jr.1967
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Maisie WilliamsBritish actress (b. 1997)
- Ed WestwickEnglish actor and musician
- Johnny WeirAmerican figure skater and television commentator
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Other Radiant Seekers
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Famous people with Life Path 7
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- Lucas PaquetáBrazilian association football player
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Thomas’s cards
Computed from September 11, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3990670 (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.
The same Thomas K. McCraw at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas K. McCraw.
Quick answers about Thomas K. McCraw’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thomas K. McCraw?
- Thomas K. McCraw was a Virgo: born September 11, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Thomas K. McCraw's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1940 birth.
- What was Thomas K. McCraw's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Thomas K. McCraw's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Thomas K. McCraw's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thomas K. McCraw's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
