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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Conrad
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
Conrad ranked 276th in 1889, the year of this birth, with 37 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Conrad’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Conrad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Conrad apart
Conrad Aiken took the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1930, at 41.
The classrooms behind this chart: Middlesex School and Harvard University.
The grave is at Bonaventure Cemetery.
The family line: born to Anna Potter Aiken, married Mary Hoover Aiken and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Conrad Aiken under Poets from Georgia (U.S. state), Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) and Burials at Bonaventure Cemetery.
Neil Armstrong (1930) and Janet McTeer (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Middlesex School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Bollingen Prize (1955), National Book Award (1954) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1934)
- Buried at
- Bonaventure Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 40
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. Working below.
Where Conrad sits
Six lines
Conrad’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 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.
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 Conrad Aiken
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Savannah 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 Savannah that night
Computed for 32.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Savannah was Vega, in Lyra, 76.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 32.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −57.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Savannah on any night.
The Moon, 67% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Savannah, United States
The death is recorded at Savannah, Chatham County in 1973.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Conrad Aiken: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Conrad's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · 3 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.5° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°01′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°22′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 28°58′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 6°03′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Conrad’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Conrad’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Other Tidal Guardians
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Czesław MiłoszPolish-American poet and Nobel laureate
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- Cristina Fernández de KirchnerPresident of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Conrad’s cards
Computed from August 5, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Conrad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380645 (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 authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Conrad Aiken at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Conrad Aiken.
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.
- 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 was Conrad Aiken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Conrad Aiken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
