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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (born February 22, 1892, Rockland, United States; died 1950), was an American poet. Millay is best remembered for Renascence. Millay's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Frost Medal and Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#2463

US rank in 2025

~296,158

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,218 American girls and 11 boys named Edna in 1892: 18th among girls and 653rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edna’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Edna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Edna apart

George Washington (1732) and Heinrich Hertz (1857) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Edna, according to the stars

Core essence

Edna feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Edna is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Edna is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Edna needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Edna wants to be loved

Edna 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 Edna creates

How Edna makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Edna builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Edna is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Edna 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Edna has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Edna's birth date. Working below.

Where Edna sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Edna

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edna

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Edna

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edna

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

PracticalVisionary
Edna

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edna

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Edna St. Vincent Millay

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rockland 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 Rockland that night

Computed for 44.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rockland was Castor, in Gemini, 78.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 44.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 30% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.

How unusual Edna's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Edna St. Vincent Millay's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 22, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay's birth date, February 22, 1892, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Edna’s chart

Edna’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 0.4° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.4° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.3° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.1° orbSun in Pisces · 3°35′☉3°Moon in Sagittarius · 22°59′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°24′☿23°Venus in Aries · 10°25′♀10°Mars in Sagittarius · 17°54′♂17°Jupiter in Pisces · 24°25′♃24°Saturn in Virgo · 28°31′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Scorpio · 6°00′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Gemini · 6°16′♆6°Pluto in Gemini · 6°53′♇6°

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

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.6° orb

    Edna’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb

    Edna’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.2° to 3.2° orb

    Edna’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune3.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter6.3° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 5.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 13°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 24°07′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 29°09′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 1°26′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°44′ (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 0.3°
  • Hygiea square Sun 2.1°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 2.9°

Edna’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Edna’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°

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Edna’s cards

Computed from February 22, 1892. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62134 (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 en:Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Edna St. Vincent Millay 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 Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Quick answers about Edna St. Vincent Millay’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edna St. Vincent Millay?
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a Pisces: born February 22, 1892, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Edna St. Vincent Millay's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 22, 1892 birth.
What was Edna St. Vincent Millay's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Edna St. Vincent Millay's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Edna St. Vincent Millay's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edna St. Vincent Millay's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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