Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952, London, United Kingdom), aged 73, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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
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Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Andrew Motion in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll 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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Andrew Motion was born on October 26, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Andrew Motion's birth date, October 26, 1952, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Andrew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Andrew Motion's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, 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 Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Andrew Motion combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Andrew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Andrew Motion, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Andrew’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Andrew’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.9° to 4.4° orb
Andrew’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Andrew’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
Andrew’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.8° to 5.4° orb
Andrew’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
Andrew’s growth grinds against their depths.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°00′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Andrew is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Andrew feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°55′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Andrew attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 24°17′ (moves 0.17° 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. Andrew is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Andrew is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 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°
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°).
Andrew’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. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Andrew is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Andrew’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.
T-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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Andrew Motion, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Andrew’s cards
Every card is computed from October 26, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Andrew Motion, 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
Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q506410, 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.
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. 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 Andrew Motion.
Quick answers about Andrew Motion’s chart
- How old is Andrew Motion?
- Andrew Motion is 73 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Andrew Motion 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 is Andrew Motion's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 26, 1952 birth date.
- What is Andrew Motion's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 26, 1952 birth date.
- 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.
