Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon (born May 26, 1887, Solvay, United States; died 1954), was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. Bacon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Leonard Bacon’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Leonard
Leonard Bacon’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Leonard in the U.S.?
#637
US rank in 2025
~295,746
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 207 American boys named Leonard in 1887: 79th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Leonard apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry came in 1941, when Leonard Bacon was 54.
Study took Leonard Bacon to St. George's School and Yale University.
Leonard Bacon lies at Swan Point Cemetery.
On the family side, Leonard Bacon was born to Helen Hazard Bacon and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Leonard Bacon under People from Onondaga County, New York, Writers from Rhode Island and Poets from New York (state).
Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St. George's School and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1941) and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
- Buried at
- Swan Point Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Leonard, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonard is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Leonard needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonard is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Leonard needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Leonard wants to be loved
Leonard wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Leonard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Leonard creates
How Leonard makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Leonard creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Leonard is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Leonard 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 Leonard leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Leonard 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 Leonard's birth date. Working below.
Where Leonard sits
Six lines
Leonard’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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Solvay 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 Solvay that night
Computed for 43.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Solvay at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Solvay sits at 43.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Solvay on any night.
The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Solvay, United States
The death is recorded at South Kingstown, Washington County in 1954.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leonard Bacon: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leonard's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No Fire planets
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Leonard Bacon's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Pig
Fire PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Leonard Bacon was born on May 26, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Leonard Bacon's birth date, May 26, 1887, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Leonard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leonard Bacon's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leonard Bacon combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Leonard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Cancer 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
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.5° orb
Leonard’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Leonard’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 7.3° orb
Leonard’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.4° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 7.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.7° to 7.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Leonard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 7°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 8°26′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°29′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.9°
Leonard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Leonard’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 Saturn 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.1°
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Leonard’s cards
Computed from May 26, 1887. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6525095 (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.
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Quick answers about Leonard Bacon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leonard Bacon?
- Leonard Bacon was a Gemini: born May 26, 1887, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Leonard Bacon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1887 birth.
- What was Leonard Bacon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leonard Bacon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leonard Bacon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leonard Bacon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
