Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (born February 8, 1911, Worcester, United States; died 1979), was an American poet. Bishop is best remembered for One Art. Bishop's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Elizabeth Bishop’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bishop’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Elizabeth in the U.S.?
#17
US rank in 2025
~1,693,973
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
Elizabeth ranked 7th among girls and 764th among boys in 1911, the year of this birth, with 6,298 American girls and 18 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elizabeth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 8: tact against ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Elizabeth apart
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Elizabeth, according to the stars
Core essence
Elizabeth is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Elizabeth 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Elizabeth wants to be loved
Elizabeth wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Elizabeth, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Elizabeth creates
How Elizabeth makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Elizabeth creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Elizabeth is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Elizabeth is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth's birth date. Working below.
Where Elizabeth sits
Six lines
Elizabeth’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Elizabeth Bishop
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worcester 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 Worcester that night
Computed for 42.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Worcester at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 77% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
How unusual Elizabeth's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · 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 →Elizabeth Bishop at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Elizabeth Bishop's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Elizabeth Bishop's birth date, February 8, 1911, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Elizabeth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elizabeth Bishop's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Fire signs in this chart.
- Elizabeth Bishop combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Elizabeth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileMars0.6° to 1.1° orb
Elizabeth’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.8° to 3.0° orb
Elizabeth’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.5° orb
Elizabeth’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.3° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.5° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.9° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.2° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 2.9° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Elizabeth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°31′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°05′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°11′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 12°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.7°
Elizabeth’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Elizabeth’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.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.8°
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Born in United States
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- Edmund StevensAmerican journalist
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Born in Pig years
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- John VarleyAmerican science fiction author
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Also born on February 8
- Dmitri Mendeleev1834
- James Dean1931
- Mauricio Macri1959
- Klay Thompson1990
- Anderson .Paak1986
- Seth Green1974
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- John GosdenBritish horse trainer
- Jordan SpiethAmerican professional golfer
- Alexander AlbonThai-British motorsports racing driver
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Elizabeth’s cards
Computed from February 8, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235946 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elizabeth Bishop 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 Elizabeth Bishop.
Quick answers about Elizabeth Bishop’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elizabeth Bishop?
- Elizabeth Bishop was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1911, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Elizabeth Bishop's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1911 birth.
- What was Elizabeth Bishop's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elizabeth Bishop's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Elizabeth Bishop's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elizabeth Bishop's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
