Lee Pennington
Lee Pennington (born May 1, 1939, White Oak, United States), aged 87, is an American Kentucky poet laureate (1919- ). Pennington has served as poet laureate.
Lee Pennington’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Lee
Lee Pennington’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 Lee in the U.S.?
#727
US rank in 2025
~295,926
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,589 American boys and 477 girls named Lee in 1939: 78th among boys and 286th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lee’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Lee apart
The schooling ran through Berea College and University of Iowa.
Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Berea College and University of Iowa
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Languages
- English and American English
What the chart says
Lee, according to the stars
Core essence
Lee 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 Lee 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, Lee cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Lee needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Lee wants to be loved
Lee wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Lee creates
How Lee makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Lee creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Lee 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 1 is the pioneer. Lee 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 Lee leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Lee does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Lee's birth date. Working below.
Where Lee sits
Six lines
Lee’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 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 Lee Pennington
Three stars chosen from the real sky above White Oak 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 White Oak that night
Computed for 37.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at White Oak was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.1° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
White Oak sits at 37.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from White Oak at all: they sit past the −52.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- White Oak, United States
- Lives in
- Middletown
Wikidata records Middletown as Lee Pennington'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 Lee Pennington: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lee's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air 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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Lee Pennington's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Lee Pennington was born on May 1, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Lee Pennington's birth date, May 1, 1939, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Lee’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lee Pennington's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lee Pennington 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.
Lee’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.1° to 0.6° orb
Lee’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
Lee’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.5° orb
Lee’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.4° to 15.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Lee’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 15°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 11°28′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°47′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron square Venus 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.7°
Lee’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Lee’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.1°
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Born in United States
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Katherine Anne PorterAmerican journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
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Born in Rabbit years
- David BeckhamEnglish footballer
- Günter GrassGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
- Michelle ObamaLawyer and former First Lady of the United States
Also born on May 1
- Charli D'Amelio2004
- Jamie Dornan1982
- Rema2000
- Chet Holmgren2002
- Victoria Monét1989
- Freida McFadden1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ezri KonsaEnglish footballer (born 1997)
- Michel AebischerSwiss association football player
- Nikola MoroCroatian association football player
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Lee’s cards
Computed from May 1, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141192021 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lee Pennington.
Quick answers about Lee Pennington’s chart
- How old is Lee Pennington?
- Lee Pennington is 87 years old, born May 1, 1939 in White Oak, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lee Pennington?
- Lee Pennington is a Taurus: born May 1, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Lee Pennington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1939 birth.
- What is Lee Pennington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lee Pennington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lee Pennington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lee Pennington's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
