Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze (born December 1, 1950, New York City, United States), aged 75, is an American poet. Sze has served as United States Poet Laureate. Sze's honours include Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Arthur Sze’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
Arthur Sze’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?
#87
US rank in 2025
~551,930
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 7,161 American boys and 25 girls named Arthur in 1950: 46th among boys and 1,914th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arthur’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Arthur apart
Andrew Tate (1986) and Zoë Kravitz (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Arthur, according to the stars
Core essence
Arthur is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Arthur is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Arthur wants to be loved
Arthur 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 Arthur and watch them fall for you again.
How Arthur creates
How Arthur makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Arthur creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Arthur is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Arthur is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Arthur leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Arthur 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 Arthur's birth date. Working below.
Where Arthur sits
Six lines
Arthur’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Arthur Sze
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.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 56% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Arthur's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet · 2 planets 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 →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Arthur Sze's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Arthur Sze was born on December 1, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Arthur Sze's birth date, December 1, 1950, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Sze's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Arthur Sze combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.2° to 0.9° orb
Arthur’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Arthur’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.2° to 4.5° orb
Arthur’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrinePluto4.5° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.0° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 1.3° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.3° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileJupiterorb from 4.2° to 5.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.8° to 17.5° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 6.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 22°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°39′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°44′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.8°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.9°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.9°
More people like Arthur
Other writers
- Charles Krauthammer1950
- Gregory White Smith1951
- Edward P. Jones1950
- Robert Zemeckis1952
- Jorie Graham1950
- Paul Muldoon1951
Born in United States
- Walt BogdanichAmerican journalist
- Louis KilzerAmerican journalist and essayist
- Russell A. HulseAmerican astronomer
- Steven RalesAmerican businessman and film producer
- Robert B. LaughlinAmerican physicist
- Hamilton E. JamesAmerican businessperson. Founder and Chairman of Jefferson River Capital LLC. Former president and chief operating officer of The Blackstone Group
More charts like Arthur’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Lindsay PriceAmerican actress and singer
- Mel OwensAmerican football player
- Paula PattonAmerican actress (born 1975)
Born in Tiger years
- John Carew EcclesAustralian neurophysiologist
- Ferenc KrauszAustrian-Hungarian laser physicist and university teacher (born 1962)
- Aaron KlugBritish chemist and biophysicist
Also born on December 1
- Andrew Tate1986
- Zoë Kravitz1988
- Chanel Iman1990
- Robert Irwin2003
- Bette Midler1945
- Janelle Monáe1985
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Annie ProulxAmerican novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
- James LapineAmerican stage director and librettist. (born 1949)
- Martin FlavinAmerican novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Other Sagittarius Tiger charts
- Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist
- John HarbisonAmerican composer
- Marc ConnellyAmerican playwright
- Doug WrightAmerican playwright and screenwriter (born 1962)
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Damiano DavidItalian singer-songwriter
- Bob IgerAmerican businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- Keely HodgkinsonEnglish athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
- Caleb Landry JonesAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jason RitterAmerican actor
- Billy PorterAmerican singer and actor
- Adam RodríguezAmerican actor, writer, and director
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Arthur’s cards
Computed from December 1, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4800412 (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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Sze 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 Arthur Sze.
Quick answers about Arthur Sze’s chart
- How old is Arthur Sze?
- Arthur Sze is 75 years old, born December 1, 1950 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Arthur Sze?
- Arthur Sze is a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1950, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Arthur Sze's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1950 birth.
- What is Arthur Sze's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Arthur Sze's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Arthur Sze's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Arthur Sze's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
