Cotton Noe
Cotton Noe (born May 2, 1864, Washington County, United States; died 1953), was an American poet from Kentucky. Noe served as poet laureate.
Cotton Noe’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Cotton
Cotton Noe’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Cotton in the U.S.?
#8388
US rank in 2025
~507
Americans share it since 1918
2015
its peak year
Cotton is in US records from 1918, but 1880 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2015.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cotton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cotton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Cotton apart
David Beckham (1975) and Dwayne Johnson (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Cotton, according to the stars
Core essence
Cotton 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 Cotton 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 Cotton wants to be loved
Cotton wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Cotton creates
How Cotton makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Cotton creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Cotton is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Cotton is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Cotton slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Cotton's birth date. Working below.
Where Cotton sits
Six lines
Cotton’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 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Cotton Noe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington County 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 Washington County that night
Computed for 37.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington County was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 80.1° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 37.8°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 Washington County at all: they sit past the −52.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Cotton's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · Yod onto Saturn
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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Cotton Noe's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 2, 1864, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rat
Wood RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Cotton Noe was born on May 2, 1864, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Cotton Noe's birth date, May 2, 1864, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Cotton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cotton Noe's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Cotton Noe combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Cotton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.2° orb
Cotton’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileUranus0.2° to 1.4° orb
Cotton’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssextilePluto0.2° to 0.9° orb
Cotton’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.7° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 6.2° to 20.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Cotton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 14°06′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 0°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 10°22′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 12°52′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros square Sun 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.8°
Cotton’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Cotton’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Sun, Mars, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
- Yod onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
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Born in United States
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on May 2
- David Beckham1975
- Dwayne Johnson1972
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- Lily Allen1985
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Other Radiant Scholars
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Cotton’s cards
Computed from May 2, 1864. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cotton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60539964 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cotton Noe.
Quick answers about Cotton Noe’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Cotton Noe?
- Cotton Noe was a Taurus: born May 2, 1864, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Cotton Noe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 2, 1864 birth.
- What was Cotton Noe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Cotton Noe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Cotton Noe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Cotton Noe's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
