Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken (born August 5, 1889, Savannah, United States; died 1973), was an American novelist and poet. Aiken's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.
Conrad Aiken’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Conrad Aiken’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Conrad in the U.S.?
#417
US rank in 2025
~39,298
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
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Conrad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
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What the chart says
Conrad, according to the stars
Core essence
Conrad is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Conrad is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Conrad creates
How Conrad makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Conrad creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Conrad is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Conrad is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Conrad does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Conrad's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Conrad sits
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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 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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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Conrad Aiken's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
Conrad Aiken was born on August 5, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Conrad Aiken's birth date, August 5, 1889, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Conrad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Conrad Aiken's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Conrad Aiken combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Conrad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Conrad Aiken, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb
Conrad’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 2.9° orb
Conrad’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.5° orb
Conrad’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
Conrad’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.5° to 6.7° orb
Conrad’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 1.3° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextilePlutoorb from 3.2° to 5.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.7° to 5.7° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 5.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Conrad’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°01′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Conrad is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°22′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Conrad caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 28°58′ (moves 0.10° 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 Conrad attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 6°03′ (moves 0.08° 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. Conrad is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Conrad guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros opposition Venus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Chiron square Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.6°
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°).
Conrad’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Conrad is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Conrad’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 Leo · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Conrad Aiken, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Conrad’s cards
Every card is computed from August 5, 1889, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Conrad Aiken, 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
Conrad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380645, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Conrad Aiken at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Conrad Aiken’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Conrad Aiken?
- Conrad Aiken was a Leo: born August 5, 1889, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
- What was Conrad Aiken's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1889 birth.
- What time was Conrad Aiken 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 Conrad Aiken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 5, 1889 birth date.
- What was Conrad Aiken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 5, 1889 birth date.
- Where was Conrad Aiken's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Conrad Aiken's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
