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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Arthur sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Arthur Sze, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Arthur’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.0° to 6.4° orb
Arthur’s mind grinds against their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 22°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Arthur building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°39′ (moves 0.38° 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 Arthur caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°44′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Arthur attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°35′ (moves 0.38° 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. Arthur is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Arthur that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Arthur’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Arthur is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Arthur’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.
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 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 quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arthur Sze, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Arthur’s cards
Every card is computed from December 1, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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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
No birth time is on public record for Arthur Sze, 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
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4800412, 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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Sze at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- 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 time was Arthur Sze 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 is Arthur Sze's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 1, 1950 birth date.
- What is Arthur Sze's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 1, 1950 birth date.
- 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.
