Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan (born April 27, 1920, Glasgow, United Kingdom; died 2010), was a Scottish poet and translator. Morgan served as The Scots Makar. Morgan's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award and King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Edwin Morgan’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Edwin Morgan’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.
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~248,744
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
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Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
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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.
How Edwin wants to be loved
Edwin 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 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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Edwin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Edwin Morgan's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 27, 1920, 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.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Edwin Morgan was born on April 27, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Edwin Morgan's birth date, April 27, 1920, 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 Morgan's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Edwin Morgan 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 Morgan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.0° orb
Edwin’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Edwin’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Edwin’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Edwin’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrinePluto1.0° orb
Edwin’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
Edwin’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb
Edwin’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileUranus1.5° to 2.4° orb
Edwin’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
Edwin’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.2° to 3.5° orb
Edwin’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.3° to 3.7° orb
Edwin’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurysquarePluto5.1° to 6.5° orb
Edwin’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironAries 8°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Edwin may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°47′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Edwin is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 26°14′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Edwin wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Edwin needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Edwin leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.9°
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. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Edwin is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edwin Morgan, 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 27, 1920, 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
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
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 Morgan, 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 Q638783, 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 Alex Boyd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edwin Morgan at Wikipedia, edwinmorgan.com 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 Morgan.
Quick answers about Edwin Morgan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin Morgan?
- Edwin Morgan was a Taurus: born April 27, 1920, 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 Metal Monkey.
- What was Edwin Morgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 27, 1920 birth.
- What time was Edwin Morgan 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 Morgan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 27, 1920 birth date.
- What was Edwin Morgan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 27, 1920 birth date.
- Where was Edwin Morgan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin Morgan's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
