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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (born January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia; died 2017), was a Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright. Walcott is best remembered for Dream on Monkey Mountain, Omeros and The Capeman. Walcott's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and T. S. Eliot Prize.

Derek Walcott’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Derek Walcott’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Derek in the U.S.?

#284

US rank in 2025

~239,969

Americans share it since 1924

1989

its peak year

Derek ranked 2,208th in 1930, the year of this birth, with 13 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Derek’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on D (4) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Derek’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

The record

What sets Derek apart

Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Derek, according to the stars

Core essence

Derek is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Derek is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Derek creates

How Derek makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Derek 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: Derek is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Derek 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 Derek leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Derek 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 Derek's birth date. Working below.

Where Derek sits

Six lines

Derek’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Derek

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Derek

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Derek

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Derek

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Derek

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Derek

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Derek Walcott

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Castries on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Derek’s birth-night reference starBellatrixblue · OrionBellatrix, in Orion. A blue star, 81.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Bellatrix →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 58.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Castries that night

Computed for 14.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Castries was Bellatrix, in Orion, 81.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

From 14.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 27% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

How unusual Derek's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Derek Walcott's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Snake

Private by design.

Derek Walcott was born on January 23, 1930, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Derek Walcott's birth date, January 23, 1930, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Derek’s chart

Derek’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.6° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 3.2° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 2°57′☉2°Moon in Scorpio · 25°57′☽25°Mercury in Capricorn · 29°11′ · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Capricorn · 29°34′♀29°Mars in Capricorn · 19°08′♂19°Jupiter in Gemini · 6°27′ · retrograde♃℞6°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°19′♄6°Uranus in Aries · 8°03′♅8°Neptune in Virgo · 2°59′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Cancer · 18°15′ · retrograde♇℞18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.6° orb

    Derek’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto0.5° to 1.3° orb

    Derek’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus1.6° orb

    Derek’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune3.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 13.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Derek’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 9°37′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 4°54′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 23°40′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 10°34′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 27°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.6°
  • Ceres square Neptune 1.9°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.5°

Derek’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Derek’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Mercury, Venus, Mars, 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.

  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Derek’s cards

Computed from January 23, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Derek’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q132701 (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 Bert Nienhuis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Derek Walcott 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 Derek Walcott.

Quick answers about Derek Walcott’s chart

What zodiac sign was Derek Walcott?
Derek Walcott was an Aquarius: born January 23, 1930, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Derek Walcott's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1930 birth.
What was Derek Walcott's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Derek Walcott's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Derek Walcott's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Derek Walcott's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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