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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Edwin sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Edwin Markham, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Edwin’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb
Edwin’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
Edwin’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.6° orb
Edwin’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
Edwin’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Edwin’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Edwin’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquarePluto5.8° to 6.2° orb
Edwin’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.1° to 6.6° orb
Edwin’s mind and discipline act as one.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 3°39′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Edwin is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresCancer 14°51′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Edwin is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 14°42′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Edwin is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°33′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Edwin is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Edwin carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Edwin’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Edwin is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edwin Markham, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Edwin’s cards
Every card is computed from April 23, 1852, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Edwin Markham, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5346648, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- 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 time was Edwin Markham born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Edwin Markham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1852 birth date.
- What was Edwin Markham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1852 birth date.
- 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.
