Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht (born January 16, 1923, New York City, United States; died 2004), was an American poet. Hecht's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Anthony Hecht’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Anthony
Anthony Hecht’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anthony in the U.S.?
#46
US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1923, Anthony came 39th among boys and 1,639th among girls, carried by 5,121 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anthony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 8: movement against ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1922, 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 Anthony apart
Anthony Hecht took the Rome Prize in 1952, at 29.
Training came by way of Horace Mann School and Kenyon College.
The grave is at Bard College.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Anthony Hecht: American expatriates in Japan, Kenyon College alumni and Georgetown University faculty.
Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Horace Mann School, Kenyon College and University of Iowa
- Awards
- Bollingen Prize (1983), Robert Frost Medal (2000) and United States Poet Laureate (1982)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Buried at
- Bard College
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
Anthony, according to the stars
Core essence
Anthony is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Anthony is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Anthony is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Anthony needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Anthony wants to be loved
Anthony 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 Anthony and watch them fall for you again.
How Anthony creates
How Anthony makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Anthony creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Anthony is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anthony is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Anthony slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.
Where Anthony sits
Six lines
Anthony’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Anthony Hecht
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anthony Hecht: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Anthony's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Anthony Hecht's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Anthony Hecht was born on January 16, 1923, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Anthony Hecht's birth date, January 16, 1923, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Anthony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anthony Hecht's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Anthony Hecht combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Anthony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquareUranus0.3° to 1.1° orb
Anthony’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileMars0.8° to 1.1° orb
Anthony’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableUranustrinePluto1.2° orb
Anthony’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.8° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°12′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 6°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°58′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.6°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.9°
Anthony’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Anthony’s chart
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn 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 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
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Anthony’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3618497 (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 Cmacauley (talk) 13:52, 16 August 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anthony Hecht at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anthony Hecht.
Quick answers about Anthony Hecht’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anthony Hecht?
- Anthony Hecht was a Capricorn: born January 16, 1923, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Anthony Hecht's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1923 birth.
- What was Anthony Hecht's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anthony Hecht's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anthony Hecht's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anthony Hecht's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
