George Oppen
George Oppen (born April 24, 1908, New Rochelle, United States; died 1984), was an American poet. Oppen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Purple Heart.
George Oppen’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with George
George Oppen’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
George ranked 4th among boys and 584th among girls in 1908, the year of this birth, with 4,584 American boys and 41 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets George apart
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of George is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, George needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What George needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to George like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How George creates
How George 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. George 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: George is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. George is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of George leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. George scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 George Oppen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Rochelle 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 New Rochelle that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New Rochelle at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Rochelle at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 36% lit at last quarter.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
George Oppen's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
George Oppen was born on April 24, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
George Oppen's birth date, April 24, 1908, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Oppen's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- George Oppen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° 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
stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
George’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.1° to 1.0° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.1° to 0.2° orb
George’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.1° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.3° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 4.5° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 6°08′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 26°09′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 18°01′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.7°
George’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in George’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.
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.8°
More people like George
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Born in United States
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- Thurgood MarshallAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
- Bette DavisAmerican actress
- C. Vann WoodwardAmerican historian
- Price DayAmerican war correspondent
More charts like George’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Keenan AllenAmerican football player
- Pharaoh BrownAmerican football player (1994-)
- Charvarius WardAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Monkey years
- Don BradmanAustralian cricketer
- Kim CattrallBritish–Canadian actress
- Norman ReedusAmerican actor
Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- Kelly Clarkson1982
- Josep Borrell1947
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Jean-Paul Gaultier1952
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Margaret ChoAmerican comedian and actress (born 1968)
- Robert CarradineAmerican actor
- Deon ColeAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Other Taurus Monkey charts
- Danny WolfIsraeli-American basketball player
- Kel'el WareAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Adou ThieroAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Yves MissiCameroonian basketball player (born 2004)
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Howard TaylerAmerican writer and webcartoonist
- Arkady MartineAmerican science fiction author and historian (born 1985)
- Plácido DomingoSpanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)
- Hume CronynCanadian-American actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Tiger WoodsAmerican golfer
- Tu YouyouChinese medical scientist
- Rupert MurdochAmerican businessman
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
George’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3101810 (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 United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Oppen at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Oppen.
Quick answers about George Oppen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Oppen?
- George Oppen was a Taurus: born April 24, 1908, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was George Oppen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1908 birth.
- What was George Oppen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Oppen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Oppen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Oppen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
