Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927, Providence, United States; died 2014), was an American poet. Kinnell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Fulbright Scholarship and Robert Frost Medal.
Galway Kinnell’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Galway
Galway Kinnell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
What Galway’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Galway’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The record
What sets Galway apart
Gabriel Batistuta (1969) and Lisa Marie Presley (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Galway, according to the stars
Core essence
Galway is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Galway 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.
How Galway wants to be loved
Galway wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Galway be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Galway creates
How Galway makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Galway creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Galway is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Galway 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Galway is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Galway's birth date. Working below.
Where Galway sits
Six lines
Galway’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Galway Kinnell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Providence 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 Providence that night
Computed for 41.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Providence at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Providence sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Providence on any night.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Galway's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 2 unaspected 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Galway Kinnell's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Galway Kinnell was born on February 1, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Galway Kinnell's birth date, February 1, 1927, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Galway’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Galway Kinnell's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Galway Kinnell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Galway’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
Galway’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 3.3° orb
Galway’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.7° to 2.9° orb
Galway’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 2.2° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 5.6° to 18.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 5.7° to 19.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Galway’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 6°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°52′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 26°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
Galway’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Galway’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.5°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Galway’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Sharon TateAmerican actress and model
- Josh BrolinAmerican actor
- Kerry WashingtonAmerican actress
Born in Tiger years
- Irwin RoseAmerican biologist
- Ben Roy MottelsonDanish-American nuclear physicist
- Renato DulbeccoItalian-born American virologist
Also born on February 1
- Gabriel Batistuta1969
- Lisa Marie Presley1968
- Ronda Rousey1987
- Michael C. Hall1971
- Rick James1948
- Lauren Conrad1986
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Louis Menandwriter, Pulitzer Prize for History winner
- Carl PhillipsAmerican writer and poet (born 1959)
- Wendy WassersteinAmerican playwright
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
- Ted WhiteAmerican writer
- Garth BrooksAmerican country music singer and songwriter
- Eray CömertSwiss association football player
- Alejandro ZendejasAmerican soccer player
Other Radiant Architects
- Margaret BrundageAmerican artist
- Bogi TakácsHungarian writer, editor, reviewer
- Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeter
- Irene DunneAmerican actress and singer
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Ibrahima KonatéFrench footballer (born 1999)
- Leo ØstigårdNorwegian footballer (born 1999)
- Noah OkaforSwiss association football player
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Galway’s cards
Computed from February 1, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Galway’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2425705 (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 Artaxerxes, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Galway Kinnell at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Galway Kinnell.
Quick answers about Galway Kinnell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Galway Kinnell?
- Galway Kinnell was an Aquarius: born February 1, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Galway Kinnell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 1, 1927 birth.
- What was Galway Kinnell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Galway Kinnell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Galway Kinnell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Galway Kinnell's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
