Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham (born April 23, 1852, Oregon City, United States; died 1940), was an American poet. Markham is best remembered for The Man With the Hoe. Markham's honours include Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.
Edwin Markham’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Edwin
Edwin Markham’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Edwin in the U.S.?
#398
US rank in 2025
~248,744
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
The earliest American count for Edwin is 1880, 28 years on: 57th, 309 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Edwin apart
Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Edwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Edwin 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 Edwin 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Edwin processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Edwin needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Edwin wants to be loved
Edwin wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Edwin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Edwin creates
How Edwin makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Edwin creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Edwin 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Edwin is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Edwin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Edwin's birth date. Working below.
Where Edwin sits
Six lines
Edwin’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Edwin Markham
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oregon City 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 Oregon City that night
Computed for 45.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Oregon City at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Oregon City sits at 45.4°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −44.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Oregon City on any night.
The Moon, 20% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
How unusual Edwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Edwin Markham's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1852, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Rat
Water RatSaw the opening before you did.
Edwin Markham was born on April 23, 1852, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Edwin Markham's birth date, April 23, 1852, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Edwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edwin Markham's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edwin Markham combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Edwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.1° to 1.0° orb
Edwin’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.5° to 0.7° orb
Edwin’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.3° orb
Edwin’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.8° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.1° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Edwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 3°39′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 14°51′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 14°42′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°33′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.1°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.8°
Edwin’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, PlutoThree 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 semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
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Edwin’s cards
Computed from April 23, 1852. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5346648 (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 Horner, John B. (for book in which the image is contained);, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edwin Markham at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edwin Markham.
Quick answers about Edwin Markham’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin Markham?
- Edwin Markham was a Taurus: born April 23, 1852, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Edwin Markham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1852 birth.
- What was Edwin Markham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edwin Markham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edwin Markham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin Markham's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
