Vermont C. Royster
Vermont C. Royster (born April 30, 1914, Raleigh, United States; died 1996), was an American writer. Royster's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
Vermont C. Royster’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.How compatible are you with Vermont C. Royster?
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Vermont C. Royster’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
Vermont’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Vermont, according to the stars
Core essence
Vermont is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Vermont is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Vermont 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 Vermont needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Vermont wants to be loved
Vermont 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 Vermont is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Vermont creates
How Vermont makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Vermont creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Vermont 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Vermont is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Vermont does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Vermont's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Vermont sits
Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.
Vermont’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Raleigh on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Vermont C. Royster's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Vermont C. Royster was born on April 30, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Vermont C. Royster's birth date, April 30, 1914, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Vermont’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vermont C. Royster's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Vermont C. Royster combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Vermont’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Vermont C. Royster, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableVenussextileMars0.2° to 0.9° orb
Vermont’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsquareUranus1.5° to 2.5° orb
Vermont’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 3.2° orb
Vermont’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.7° to 4.5° orb
Vermont’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb
Vermont’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.4° orb
Vermont’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 4.1° orb
Vermont’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
Vermont’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 2.7° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 5.0° to 6.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysquareMarsorb from 6.8° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Vermont’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 17°46′ (moves 0.04° 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 Vermont absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAquarius 23°23′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Vermont is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 4°13′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Vermont is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°47′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Vermont needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Vermont carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.3°
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°).
Vermont’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars, Neptune
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Vermont is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Vermont’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.
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vermont C. Royster, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Vermont’s cards
Every card is computed from April 30, 1914, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Vermont C. Royster, 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
Vermont’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q931832, 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 Vermont C. Royster 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 Vermont C. Royster.
Quick answers about Vermont C. Royster’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vermont C. Royster?
- Vermont C. Royster was a Taurus: born April 30, 1914, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
- What was Vermont C. Royster's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1914 birth.
- What time was Vermont C. Royster 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 Vermont C. Royster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 30, 1914 birth date.
- What was Vermont C. Royster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 30, 1914 birth date.
- Where was Vermont C. Royster's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vermont C. Royster's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
