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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952, London, United Kingdom), aged 74, is a Poet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952). Motion has served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and Booker Prize judge. Motion's honours include Knight Bachelor, Cholmondeley Award and Eric Gregory Award.

Andrew Motion’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Andrew Motion’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#73

US rank in 2025

~1,334,415

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1952, Andrew came 68th among boys and 3,204th among girls, carried by 5,572 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

9

Soul Urge · meaning

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Andrew apart

Hillary Clinton (1947) and Evo Morales (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Andrew, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrew does not do surface. The core of Andrew is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Andrew is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Andrew wants to be loved

Andrew wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Andrew and watch them fall for you again.

How Andrew creates

How Andrew makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Andrew creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrew is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Andrew 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Andrew does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Andrew's birth date. Working below.

Where Andrew sits

Six lines

Andrew’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Andrew

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andrew

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Andrew

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andrew

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

PracticalVisionary
Andrew

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andrew

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Andrew Motion

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Andrew’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 80.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 35.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Caph stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.1° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 58% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

How unusual Andrew's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet

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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Andrew Motion in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Andrew Motion's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 26, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Andrew Motion was born on October 26, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Andrew Motion's birth date, October 26, 1952, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 3°01′☉3°Moon in Aquarius · 7°20′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 22°14′☿22°Venus in Sagittarius · 5°15′♀5°Mars in Capricorn · 10°20′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 17°38′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Libra · 19°48′♄19°Uranus in Cancer · 18°32′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Libra · 21°53′♆21°Pluto in Leo · 23°04′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.6° orb

    Andrew’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Andrew’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Andrew’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.9° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.8° to 5.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Andrew’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°00′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 9°55′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 24°17′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.1°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 2.3°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.7°

Andrew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Andrew’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°

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Andrew’s cards

Computed from October 26, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q506410 (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 Peter-Ashley Jackson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrew Motion at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andrew Motion.

Quick answers about Andrew Motion’s chart

How old is Andrew Motion?
Andrew Motion is 74 years old, born October 26, 1952 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Andrew Motion?
Andrew Motion is a Scorpio: born October 26, 1952, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Andrew Motion's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 26, 1952 birth.
What is Andrew Motion's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Andrew Motion's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Andrew Motion's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Andrew Motion's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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