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Vance Trimble

Vance Trimble (born July 6, 1913, Harrison, United States; died 2021), was an American journalist. Trimble's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Raymond Clapper Memorial Award and Sigma Delta Chi Award.

Vance Trimble’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Vance Trimble’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1080

US rank in 2025

~27,150

Americans share it since 1880

1969

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Vance’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

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

What the chart says

Vance, according to the stars

Core essence

Vance feels the room before entering it. The core of Vance is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Vance, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Vance needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Vance needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Vance wants to be loved

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

How Vance creates

How Vance 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. Vance 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: Vance 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Vance is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Vance is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Vance's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Vance sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Vance

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vance

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

PrivateExpressive
Vance

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vance

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

PracticalVisionary
Vance

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vance

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

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Vance Trimble in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Vance Trimble's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Water Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Vance Trimble was born on July 6, 1913, which falls in a Water 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 9

Gives without keeping score.

Vance Trimble's birth date, July 6, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Vance’s chart

Vance’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Vance Trimble, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Leo 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 opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.2° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.8° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 4.1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 4.2° orbSun in Cancer · 14°01′14°Moon in Leo · 18°27′18°Mercury in Leo · 10°12′10°Venus in Taurus · 28°24′28°Mars in Taurus · 14°16′14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 12°48′ · retrograde12°Saturn in Gemini · 12°20′12°Uranus in Aquarius · 6°26′ · retrogradeNeptune in Cancer · 25°17′25°Pluto in Gemini · 29°56′29°

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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Square 90°
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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.

  • stableSunsextileMars0.1° to 0.4° orb

    Vance’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb

    Vance’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Vance’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb

    Vance’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.6° orb

    Vance’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.2° to 4.3° orb

    Vance’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.9° to 4.2° orb

    Vance’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb

    Vance’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 1.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.2° to 16.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Vance’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 14°58′ (moves 0.02° 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 Vance absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresScorpio 17°57′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Vance is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ErosLeo 6°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Vance loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • HygieaTaurus 17°31′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Vance is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • Black Moon LilithPisces 14°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Vance is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Sun 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.2°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.6°

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°).

Vance’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. Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus4 pts

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

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Vance is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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 Vance’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 quintile Venus 0.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.5°
  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°

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

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Vance’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yin Water

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Earth

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Vance Trimble, 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

Vance’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20679230, 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.

The same Vance Trimble 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 Vance Trimble.

Quick answers about Vance Trimble’s chart

What zodiac sign was Vance Trimble?
Vance Trimble was a Cancer: born July 6, 1913, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
What was Vance Trimble's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1913 birth.
What time was Vance Trimble 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 Vance Trimble's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 6, 1913 birth date.
What was Vance Trimble's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 6, 1913 birth date.
Where was Vance Trimble's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Vance Trimble's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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