Ifor ap Glyn
Ifor ap Glyn (born July 22, 1961, London, United Kingdom), aged 65, is a Welsh poet and television producer/presenter. Glyn has served as National Poet of Wales.
Ifor ap Glyn’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ifor
Ifor ap Glyn’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What Ifor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on I (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ifor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Ifor apart
The schooling ran through Cardiff University.
Wikipedia files Ifor ap Glyn under Crowned bards, Welsh dramatists and playwrights and Welsh-language poets.
Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cardiff University
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Ifor, according to the stars
Core essence
Ifor feels the room before entering it. The core of Ifor is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ifor, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ifor feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ifor needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ifor wants to be loved
Ifor 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 Ifor like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ifor creates
How Ifor 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. Ifor 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: Ifor is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ifor 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 Ifor leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ifor channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Ifor's birth date. Working below.
Where Ifor sits
Six lines
Ifor’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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 Ifor ap Glyn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Edasich, in Draco, 80.8° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.
The Moon, 69% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -0° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Denbigh · Caernarfon
Wikidata records Denbigh and Caernarfon as Ifor ap Glyn's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ifor ap Glyn: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ifor's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Ifor ap Glyn's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Ifor ap Glyn was born on July 22, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Ifor ap Glyn's birth date, July 22, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Ifor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ifor ap Glyn's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Ifor ap Glyn combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Ifor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.4° to 1.6° orb
Ifor’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
Ifor’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars2.1° to 2.6° orb
Ifor’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.5° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ifor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 16°51′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 13°34′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 20°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°01′ (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°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.8°
Ifor’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ifor’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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.9°
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More charts like Ifor’s
Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Ox years
- Amr DiabEgyptian singer, composer and actor
- Bill EnglishPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017
- Ratan TataIndian industrialist
Also born on July 22
- Willem Dafoe1955
- John Leguizamo1964
- Scott Dixon1980
- Selena Gomez1992
- Danny Glover1946
- Jonathan Owens1995
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Alice MunroCanadian writer
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Malala YousafzaiPakistani children's education activist
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Other Radiant Strategists
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- Herbert RossAmerican film director
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- Maurice ChevalierFrench singer, actor, and entertainer
Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Ifor’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ifor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14646659 (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 Ifor ap Glyn at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ifor ap Glyn.
Quick answers about Ifor ap Glyn’s chart
- How old is Ifor ap Glyn?
- Ifor ap Glyn is 65 years old, born July 22, 1961 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ifor ap Glyn?
- Ifor ap Glyn is a Cancer: born July 22, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Ifor ap Glyn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1961 birth.
- What is Ifor ap Glyn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ifor ap Glyn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ifor ap Glyn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ifor ap Glyn's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
