Walter Jackson Bate
Walter Jackson Bate (born May 23, 1918, Mankato, United States; died 1999), was an American biographer. Bate's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Walter Jackson Bate’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Walter
Walter Jackson Bate’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Walter ranked 11th among boys and 801st among girls in 1918, the year of this birth, with 13,338 American boys and 80 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’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 W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Walter apart
Walter Jackson Bate took the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction in 1977, at 59.
The classrooms behind this chart: Harvard University.
Wikipedia's editors put Walter Jackson Bate under People from Mankato, Minnesota, American literary critics and Harvard University faculty.
John Bardeen (1908) and Rubens Barrichello (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- National Book Award (1978), Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1978) and National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (1977)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Walter needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Walter feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Walter needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Walter creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Walter is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Walter is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Walter 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 Walter's birth date. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Walter Jackson Bate
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mankato 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 Mankato that night
Computed for 44.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mankato was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 80.0° up.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 44.2°N, Capella never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −45.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mankato on any night.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Mankato, United States
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Walter Jackson Bate: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Walter Jackson Bate's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 23, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Walter Jackson Bate was born on May 23, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Walter Jackson Bate's birth date, May 23, 1918, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Jackson Bate's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Walter Jackson Bate combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Walter’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 6.2° orb
Walter’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 0.4° orb
Walter’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 2°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 8°41′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°03′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 10°02′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.9°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.1°
Walter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Walter’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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Famous people with Life Path 11
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Walter’s cards
Computed from May 23, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7965245 (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 Walter Jackson Bate at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Jackson Bate.
Quick answers about Walter Jackson Bate’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Walter Jackson Bate?
- Walter Jackson Bate was a Gemini: born May 23, 1918, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Walter Jackson Bate's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1918 birth.
- What was Walter Jackson Bate's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Walter Jackson Bate's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Walter Jackson Bate's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Walter Jackson Bate's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
