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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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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
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Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Elizabeth sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Elizabeth Bishop, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° 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.
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
Elizabeth’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.3° orb
Elizabeth’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.5° to 5.4° orb
Elizabeth’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.9° orb
Elizabeth’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
Elizabeth’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.2° orb
Elizabeth’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°31′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Elizabeth absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 22°05′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Elizabeth looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 5°11′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Elizabeth is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 12°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Elizabeth is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°12′ (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 Elizabeth 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.
- 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°
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°).
Elizabeth’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Elizabeth is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Elizabeth’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elizabeth Bishop, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elizabeth’s cards
Every card is computed from February 8, 1911, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Elizabeth Bishop, 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
Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235946, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elizabeth Bishop 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- 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 time was Elizabeth Bishop 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 Elizabeth Bishop's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 8, 1911 birth date.
- What was Elizabeth Bishop's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 8, 1911 birth date.
- 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.
