Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (born November 9, 1928, Newton, United States; died 1974), was an American poet. Sexton is best remembered for Live or Die. Sexton's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and Shelley Memorial Award.
Anne Sexton’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Anne
Anne Sexton’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anne in the U.S.?
#619
US rank in 2025
~325,954
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1928, Anne came 93rd among girls and 2,854th among boys, carried by 2,824 American girls and 9 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (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
Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Anne apart
Carl Sagan (1934) and Hedy Lamarr (1914) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Anne, according to the stars
Core essence
Anne does not do surface. The core of Anne 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 Anne is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Anne cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Anne needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Anne wants to be loved
Anne 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 Anne and watch them fall for you again.
How Anne creates
How Anne makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Anne creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Anne 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Anne is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Anne 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 Anne's birth date. Working below.
Where Anne sits
Six lines
Anne’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Anne Sexton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newton 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 Newton that night
Computed for 42.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Newton was Mirach, in Andromeda, 80.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.3°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 −47.7° 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 crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
How unusual Anne's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Anne Sexton's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Anne Sexton was born on November 9, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Anne Sexton's birth date, November 9, 1928, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Anne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anne Sexton's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Anne Sexton combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Anne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Libra 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
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb
Anne’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrinePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
Anne’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Anne’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 5.2° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 7.4° to 19.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Anne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 7°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 4°30′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°48′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°57′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.9°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.4°
Anne’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Anne’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.5°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on November 9
- Carl Sagan1934
- Hedy Lamarr1914
- Luiz Felipe Scolari1948
- Eric Dane1972
- Nikki Blonsky1988
- Sherrod Brown1952
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Chloë Grace MoretzAmerican actress
- Ava MaxAmerican singer and songwriter
- Amy KlobucharAmerican politician and lawyer (born 1960)
Other Scorpio Dragon charts
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Other Tidal Architects
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- Carl DueringGerman actor
- Tom SkerrittAmerican actor
- Susse WoldDanish actress and singer
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Julio IglesiasSpanish singer and lawyer
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Anne’s cards
Computed from November 9, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q270728 (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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anne Sexton 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 Anne Sexton.
Quick answers about Anne Sexton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anne Sexton?
- Anne Sexton was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1928, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Anne Sexton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1928 birth.
- What was Anne Sexton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anne Sexton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anne Sexton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anne Sexton's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
