Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939, United States), aged 87, is an American poet. Bidart is best known for Metaphysical Dog and Star Dust. Bidart's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.
Frank Bidart’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Frank Bidart’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Frank needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Frank is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Frank builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Frank is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Frank goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Frank's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Frank sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Frank Bidart's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Frank Bidart was born on May 27, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Frank Bidart's birth date, May 27, 1939, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Bidart's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Frank Bidart combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Frank Bidart, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.0° to 1.3° orb
Frank’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.5° to 3.5° orb
Frank’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
Frank’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.1° to 2.2° orb
Frank’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.2° to 3.0° orb
Frank’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Frank’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.2° to 5.1° orb
Frank’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.2° to 3.4° orb
Frank’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
Frank’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb
Frank’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Frank’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 8°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Frank is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 25°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Frank feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 29°17′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Frank is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 12°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Frank is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Frank at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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 sextile Venus 0.4°
- Eros square Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.3°
- Eros square Mars 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.8°
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°).
Frank’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Frank is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Frank’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Frank Bidart, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Frank’s cards
Every card is computed from May 27, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Frank Bidart, 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
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5485312, 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 Wendywellesley3, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank Bidart 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 Frank Bidart.
Quick answers about Frank Bidart’s chart
- How old is Frank Bidart?
- Frank Bidart is 87 years old, born May 27, 1939 in United States.
- What zodiac sign is Frank Bidart?
- Frank Bidart is a Gemini: born May 27, 1939, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is Frank Bidart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1939 birth.
- What time was Frank Bidart 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 is Frank Bidart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 27, 1939 birth date.
- What is Frank Bidart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 27, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Frank Bidart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Frank Bidart's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
