Gwyn Thomas
Gwyn Thomas (born September 2, 1936, Tanygrisiau, United Kingdom; died 2016), was a Welsh poet. Thomas served as National Poet of Wales. Thomas's honours include Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Gwyn Thomas’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Gwyn
Gwyn Thomas’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gwyn in the U.S.?
#9681
US rank in 2025
~2,414
Americans share it since 1915
1962
its peak year
The SSA recorded 12 American girls and 6 boys named Gwyn in 1936: 2,430th among girls and 3,316th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gwyn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gwyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Gwyn apart
The Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales came in 2011, when Gwyn Thomas was 75.
Study took Gwyn Thomas to Jesus College.
Andrew Grove shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Jesus College
- Awards
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2011)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- Welsh
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Gwyn, according to the stars
Core essence
Gwyn notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Gwyn is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Gwyn wants to be loved
Gwyn wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gwyn and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gwyn creates
How Gwyn makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gwyn creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gwyn is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Gwyn is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gwyn fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gwyn's birth date. Working below.
Where Gwyn sits
Six lines
Gwyn’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 Gwyn Thomas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tanygrisiau 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 Tanygrisiau that night
Computed for 52.99°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tanygrisiau at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 5.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 53.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tanygrisiau at all: they sit past the −37.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.
How unusual Gwyn's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Jupiter · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Gwyn Thomas's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Gwyn Thomas was born on September 2, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Gwyn Thomas's birth date, September 2, 1936, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Gwyn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gwyn Thomas' date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gwyn Thomas combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Gwyn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Gwyn’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Gwyn’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 0.8° orb
Gwyn’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.0° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gwyn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 22°52′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 26°06′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 14°15′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 5°38′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.0°
Gwyn’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Gwyn’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Born the same day as Gwyn
Andrew Grove was born on September 2, 1936 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Tanygrisiau, at 53.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gwyn
Other poets
Born in United Kingdom
- Alan FordEnglish actor
- John GurdonBritish developmental biologist
- Oliver ReedBritish actor
- Daniel MasseyEnglish actor and performer
- Anthony HopkinsWelsh–American actor and director
- Bernard RandsBritish-born American composer
More charts like Gwyn’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Fiona AppleAmerican musician
- Lili ReinhartAmerican actress
- Michael JohnsonAmerican sprinter
Born in Rat years
- Trevor NoahSouth African comedian and television host
- Hailey BieberAmerican model and television personality
- Denny HulmeNew Zealand racing driver
Also born on September 2
- Keir Starmer1962
- Keanu Reeves1964
- Salma Hayek1966
- Carlos Valderrama1961
- Katt Williams1973
- Damson Idris1991
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Nathalia DillBrazilian actress
- Lindsay LohanAmerican actress and singer
- Robert PattinsonBritish actor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Hans KrebsGerman-British biochemist
- Mark Antony De Wolfe HoweAmerican editor and biographer
- Kevin CarterSouth African photojournalist
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
Other Radiant Healers
- Anthony DoerrAmerican writer
- John TolandAmerican writer
- Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
- Barry BlittAmerican political cartoonist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Vanessa BryantMexican-American philanthropist
- Stephen BaldwinAmerican actor and political activist
- Tyson BeckfordAmerican model and actor
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Gwyn’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gwyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5623809 (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.
The same Gwyn Thomas at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gwyn Thomas.
Quick answers about Gwyn Thomas’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gwyn Thomas?
- Gwyn Thomas was a Virgo: born September 2, 1936, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Gwyn Thomas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1936 birth.
- What was Gwyn Thomas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gwyn Thomas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gwyn Thomas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gwyn Thomas's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
