Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (born May 7, 1892, Glencoe, United States; died 1982), was an American poet and Librarian of Congress. MacLeish is best remembered for The Fall of the City. MacLeish's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Archibald MacLeish’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Archibald
Archibald MacLeish’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Archibald in the U.S.?
#1145
US rank in 2025
~3,985
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
Archibald ranked 303rd in 1892, the year of this birth, with 37 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Archibald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Archibald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Archibald apart
The shelf Archibald MacLeish is read from: The Fall of the City.
The classrooms behind this chart: Hotchkiss School and Yale University.
The grave is at Pine Grove Cemetery.
Archibald MacLeish was born to Martha Hillard MacLeish and Andrew MacLeish and married Ada MacLeish.
Wikipedia's editors put Archibald MacLeish under Psi Upsilon, Lost Generation writers and Dern family.
The same date carries Malcolm Waite. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Fall of the City
- Educated at
- Hotchkiss School, Yale University and Harvard Law School
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1959) and Bollingen Prize (1952)
- Buried at
- Pine Grove Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 39
What the chart says
Archibald, according to the stars
Core essence
Archibald is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Archibald is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Archibald wants to be loved
Archibald wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Archibald gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Archibald creates
How Archibald 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. Archibald 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: Archibald 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 5 is the free spirit. Archibald 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Archibald goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Archibald's birth date. Working below.
Where Archibald sits
Six lines
Archibald’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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.
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 Archibald MacLeish
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glencoe 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 Glencoe that night
Computed for 42.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Glencoe was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.4° up.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Glencoe at all: they sit past the −47.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 87% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Glencoe, United States
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Archibald MacLeish: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Archibald's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Archibald MacLeish's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Archibald MacLeish was born on May 7, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Archibald MacLeish's birth date, May 7, 1892, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Archibald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Archibald MacLeish's date-only chart is Neptune conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Archibald MacLeish combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Archibald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Virgo or 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
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Archibald’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Archibald’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
Archibald’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.5° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.3° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Archibald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 23°42′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 5°39′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.8°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°
Archibald’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Archibald’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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 2.0°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.5°
Born the same day as Archibald
Malcolm Waite was born on May 7, 1892 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Glencoe sits at 42.1°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Archibald’s cards
Computed from May 7, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Archibald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q633354 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Archibald MacLeish’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Archibald MacLeish?
- Archibald MacLeish was a Taurus: born May 7, 1892, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Archibald MacLeish's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1892 birth.
- What was Archibald MacLeish's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Archibald MacLeish's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Archibald MacLeish's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Archibald MacLeish's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
