Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (born September 20, 1878, Baltimore, United States; died 1968), was an American writer. Sinclair is best remembered for The Jungle. Sinclair's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
Upton Sinclair’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Upton
Upton Sinclair’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Upton in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~168
Americans share it since 1910
1920
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Upton falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 1920, and 168 Americans have carried it since 1910.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Upton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on U (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Upton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Upton apart
Sophia Loren (1934) and George R. R. Martin (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Upton, according to the stars
Core essence
Upton 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 Upton is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Upton is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Upton needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Upton wants to be loved
Upton wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Upton and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Upton creates
How Upton makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Upton creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Upton is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Upton is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Upton 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 Upton's birth date. Working below.
Where Upton sits
Six lines
Upton’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Upton Sinclair
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Baltimore was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 84.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baltimore on any night.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 37% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Upton's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Upton Sinclair's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 20, 1878, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerLeads by moving.
Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Upton Sinclair's birth date, September 20, 1878, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Upton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Upton Sinclair's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Upton Sinclair combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Upton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Cancer 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Upton’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto0.1° to 0.8° orb
Upton’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.2° to 0.8° orb
Upton’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.4° to 1.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars0.6° to 0.9° orb
stableSuntrinePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto1.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth8 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Upton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 7°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 12°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 11°21′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°09′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 8°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.5°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 3.0°
Upton’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Upton’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.
Kite · Sun, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.9°
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Born in United States
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- Owen D. YoungAmerican businessman, lawyer, diplomat
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Tiger years
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- Joaquin PhoenixAmerican actor
Also born on September 20
- Sophia Loren1934
- George R. R. Martin1948
- Khabib Nurmagomedov1988
- Jon Bernthal1976
- Sutton Stracke1971
- Candy Spelling1945
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Ivan JandlCzech actor
- Peter FirthEnglish actor (born 1953)
- Kodi Smit-McPheeAustralian actor
Other Virgo Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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- Adam SchiffAmerican politician
- Maude ApatowAmerican actress (born 1997)
- Bobby BerkAmerican interior designer and reality television personality
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jerome Isaac FriedmanAmerican physicist
- Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon and biologist
- François JacobFrench biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
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Upton’s cards
Computed from September 20, 1878. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Upton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216134 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Upton Sinclair at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Upton Sinclair.
Quick answers about Upton Sinclair’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Upton Sinclair?
- Upton Sinclair was a Virgo: born September 20, 1878, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Upton Sinclair's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 20, 1878 birth.
- What was Upton Sinclair's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Upton Sinclair's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Upton Sinclair's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Upton Sinclair's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
