Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead (born December 26, 1947, Motherwell, United Kingdom), aged 78, is a Scottish poet and essayist (born 1947). Lochhead has served as The Scots Makar. Lochhead's honours include Cholmondeley Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Liz Lochhead’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Liz Lochhead’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Liz in the U.S.?
#1259
US rank in 2025
~10,223
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
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Liz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Liz, according to the stars
Core essence
Liz is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Liz is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Liz processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Liz needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Liz wants to be loved
Liz wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Liz be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Liz creates
How Liz makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Liz creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Liz 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 5 is the free spirit. Liz is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Liz 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 Liz's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Liz Lochhead at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Liz Lochhead's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 26, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Liz Lochhead was born on December 26, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Liz Lochhead's birth date, December 26, 1947, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Liz’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Liz Lochhead's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Liz Lochhead combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Liz’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Liz Lochhead, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.5° to 0.8° orb
Liz’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.0° to 1.2° orb
Liz’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.5° orb
Liz’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Liz’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMars2.3° to 3.1° orb
Liz’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 4.9° orb
Liz’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.7° to 6.3° orb
Liz’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.6° orb
Liz’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Liz’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironScorpio 20°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Liz carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 25°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Liz looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 10°42′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Liz is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 26°25′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Liz needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 6°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Liz at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.0°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Liz’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Liz is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Liz’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Liz Lochhead, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Liz’s cards
Every card is computed from December 26, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Liz Lochhead, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Liz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6660222, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Roger Green, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Liz Lochhead at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Liz Lochhead.
Quick answers about Liz Lochhead’s chart
- How old is Liz Lochhead?
- Liz Lochhead is 78 years old, born December 26, 1947 in Motherwell, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Liz Lochhead?
- Liz Lochhead is a Capricorn: born December 26, 1947, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Liz Lochhead's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 26, 1947 birth.
- What time was Liz Lochhead born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Liz Lochhead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 26, 1947 birth date.
- What is Liz Lochhead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 26, 1947 birth date.
- Where is Liz Lochhead's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Liz Lochhead's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
