Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (born May 27, 1932, The Bronx, United States; died 2023), was an American writer. Pastan served as Poet Laureate of Maryland. Pastan's honours include Pushcart Prize and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Linda Pastan’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Linda
Linda Pastan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Linda in the U.S.?
#902
US rank in 2025
~1,458,899
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Linda ranked 219th among girls and 4,078th among boys in 1932, the year of this birth, with 774 American girls and 5 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Linda’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Linda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Linda apart
Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Linda, according to the stars
Core essence
Linda 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. Linda needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Linda is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Linda needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Linda wants to be loved
Linda 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. Linda gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Linda creates
How Linda 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. Linda 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: Linda 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Linda is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Linda 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 Linda's birth date. Working below.
Where Linda sits
Six lines
Linda’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.
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 Linda Pastan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Linda's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Linda Pastan's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Linda Pastan was born on May 27, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Linda Pastan's birth date, May 27, 1932, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Linda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Linda Pastan's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Linda Pastan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Linda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Pisces 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb
Linda’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.0° to 2.0° orb
Linda’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.2° to 2.9° orb
Linda’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto1.6° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileMars1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.3° to 7.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto7.1° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Linda’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 26°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°05′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°42′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.2°
- Eros square Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.6°
Linda’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Linda’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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
More people like Linda
Other writers
- Sydney Schanberg1934
- John McPhee1931
- V. S. Naipaul1932
- Barry Unsworth1930
- Cormac McCarthy1933
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel1931
Born in United States
- Sylvia PlathAmerican poet and writer
- Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor
- Dudley R. HerschbachAmerican chemist
- Walter MercadoPuerto Rican astrologer
- Robert BentonAmerican screenwriter and film director
- Joel GreyAmerican actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)
More charts like Linda’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Gene WilderAmerican actor
- Ann DruyanAmerican author and producer
- Marjorie LiuAmerican writer
Born in Monkey years
- Mae JemisonAmerican doctor and NASA astronaut
- Lucy LawlessNew Zealand actress
- Kate UptonAmerican model and actress
Also born on May 27
- Rachel Carson1907
- Donna Strickland1959
- Lily-Rose Depp1999
- Cornelius Vanderbilt1794
- Lisa Lopes1971
- André 30001975
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Spencer TracyAmerican actor
- Adam GoldbergAmerican actor
- George SandersBritish actor
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Giuseppe TornatoreItalian film director and screenwriter
- Pier Angeliactress
- Marsha GarcesAmerican film producer (born 1956)
- Wallis SimpsonAmerican socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor
Other Steadfast Healers
- Jesse McCartneyAmerican singer and actor
- Tia MowryAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Sutton StrackeAmerican socialite and television personality
- Annamarie TendlerAmerican artist and author
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Day'Ron SharpeAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Noa EssengueFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Kylan BoswellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Linda’s cards
Computed from May 27, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Linda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2909266 (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 Linda Pastan at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Linda Pastan.
Quick answers about Linda Pastan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Linda Pastan?
- Linda Pastan was a Gemini: born May 27, 1932, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Linda Pastan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1932 birth.
- What was Linda Pastan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Linda Pastan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Linda Pastan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Linda Pastan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
