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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Frank
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.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1939, 9,991 American boys and 54 girls were registered Frank — 20th among boys and 965th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Frank apart
Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Dedicate a star to Frank Bidart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above United States on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over United States that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over United States at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.7° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
United States sits at 39.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from United States on any night.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 73% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSunsextileJupiter2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.2° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 8°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 25°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 29°17′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 12°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Frank’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Frank’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.2°
More people like Frank
Other poets
- Alan Dugan1923
- Franz Wright1953
- Dale Faughn1925
- Carl Dennis1939
- William Morris Meredith1919
- Moira Magneson1956
Born in United States
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- Lily TomlinAmerican actress
- Ellen Taaffe ZwilichAmerican composer
- Stephen Dunnpoet
- Marvin GayeAmerican R&B and soul singer
- Jacqueline MarsAmerican billionaire and philanthropist, member of Mars family of candy fame
More charts like Frank’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Tansy Rayner RobertsAustralian fantasy and crime fiction writer
- Ursula Vernonauthor, illustrator
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Born in Rabbit years
- Barbara StrauchAmerican writer
- Jodi KantorAmerican journalist
- Daniel KrausAmerican novelist, writer, editor and filmmaker
Also born on May 27
- Rachel Carson1907
- Donna Strickland1959
- Lily-Rose Depp1999
- Cornelius Vanderbilt1794
- Lisa Lopes1971
- André 30001975
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Florence WelchBritish singer
- Jonathan GroffAmerican actor and singer
- Ncuti GatwaRwandan-Scottish actor
Other Gemini Rabbit charts
- Christian DarrisawAmerican football player
- Malik WillisAmerican football quarterback
- Jalen PitreAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Dareke YoungAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Zach AllenAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jonathon CooperAmerican football player
- Zonovan KnightAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Bud DupreeAmerican football player (born 1993)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Addie L. WyattAmerican labor leader
- Roddy DoyleIrish author
- Penelope LivelyBritish novelist (born 1933)
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
Computed from May 27, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5485312 (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 Wendywellesley3, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank Bidart 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 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.
- 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 is Frank Bidart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Frank Bidart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
