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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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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.
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Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Anthony Hecht in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Anthony Hecht, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Capricorn 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.
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
Anthony’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb
Anthony’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.6° orb
Anthony’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
Anthony’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.6° orb
Anthony’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
Anthony’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.1° orb
Anthony’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.6° to 5.8° orb
Anthony’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.8° to 6.4° orb
Anthony’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 13°12′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Anthony may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 6°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Anthony caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°58′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Anthony is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Anthony is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Anthony carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Anthony’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Anthony is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Anthony’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.
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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anthony Hecht, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Anthony’s cards
Every card is computed from January 16, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Anthony Hecht, 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
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3618497, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- 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 time was Anthony Hecht 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 was Anthony Hecht's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 16, 1923 birth date.
- What was Anthony Hecht's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 16, 1923 birth date.
- 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.
