Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington (born August 3, 1871, Aurora, United States; died 1929), was a Football coach; Pulitzer Prize Winner; Academic Professor. Parrington's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Vernon Louis Parrington’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Vernon
Vernon Louis Parrington’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Vernon in the U.S.?
#1387
US rank in 2025
~148,389
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1871 — the SSA series begins 9 years later. Vernon opened it at 214th, 56 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vernon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on V (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vernon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Vernon apart
Vernon Louis Parrington took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928, at 57.
The classrooms behind this chart: College of Emporia and Harvard University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Vernon Louis Parrington: Scholars of American studies, Coaches of American football from Kansas and Writers from Emporia, Kansas.
Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- College of Emporia and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1928)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Vernon, according to the stars
Core essence
Vernon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Vernon is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Vernon is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Vernon needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Vernon wants to be loved
Vernon 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 Vernon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Vernon creates
How Vernon 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. Vernon 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: Vernon is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Vernon is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Vernon leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Vernon fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Vernon's birth date. Working below.
Where Vernon sits
Six lines
Vernon’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Vernon Louis Parrington
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aurora 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 Aurora that night
Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Aurora was Vega, in Lyra, 80.7° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 87% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Aurora, United States
The death is recorded at Gloucestershire, South West England in 1929.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Vernon Louis Parrington: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Vernon's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Vernon Louis Parrington's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1871, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatArtist first, everything second.
Vernon Louis Parrington was born on August 3, 1871, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Vernon Louis Parrington's birth date, August 3, 1871, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Vernon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vernon Louis Parrington's date-only chart is Mars opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vernon Louis Parrington combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Vernon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Pisces 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
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Vernon’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.1° to 2.7° orb
Vernon’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
Vernon’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.7° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.1° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.5° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Vernon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 11°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 6°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 14°02′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°59′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.6°
Vernon’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Vernon’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
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Vernon’s cards
Computed from August 3, 1871. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vernon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2517365 (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.
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The same Vernon Louis Parrington at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vernon Louis Parrington.
Quick answers about Vernon Louis Parrington’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vernon Louis Parrington?
- Vernon Louis Parrington was a Leo: born August 3, 1871, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Vernon Louis Parrington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1871 birth.
- What was Vernon Louis Parrington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Vernon Louis Parrington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Vernon Louis Parrington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vernon Louis Parrington's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
