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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Liz
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 1930
1961
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1947, Liz came 1,305th, carried by 49 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Liz’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Z (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 8: voice against ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Liz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Liz apart
Charles Babbage (1791) and Jared Leto (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Liz sits
Six lines
Liz’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Liz Lochhead
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Motherwell 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 Motherwell that night
Computed for 55.79°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Motherwell at 9 p.m. that evening: Miram of Perseus, within 2.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Motherwell sits at 55.8°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
How unusual Liz's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Water 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Gemini 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
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
stableSuntrineMars2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 20°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 25°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°42′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 26°25′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 6°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Liz’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Liz’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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
More people like Liz
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Born in United Kingdom
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More charts like Liz’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Elgton JenkinsAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Budda BakerAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Dillon GabrielAmerican football quarterback
Born in Pig years
- Tom ArnoldAmerican stand-up comedian and actor (born 1959)
- Aziz AnsariAmerican actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and director
- David ArquetteAmerican actor, director and professional wrestler
Also born on December 26
- Charles Babbage1791
- Jared Leto1971
- Kit Harington1986
- Andy Biersack1990
- Abdoul Razak Issoufou1994
- Richard Widmark1914
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Hedy Lamarr
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman
- Alicia KeysAmerican singer-songwriter and pianist
Other Capricorn Pig charts
- Ricky MartinPuerto Rican singer
- Robert WilsonAmerican astronomer
- JennieSouth Korean singer-songwriter and rapper
- Hailee SteinfeldAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Dick DurbinUnited States Senator from Illinois
- Connie BrittonAmerican actress
- Christie BrinkleyAmerican model and actress
- Chase Chrisleytelevision personality
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Angelina JolieAmerican actress, humanitarian and filmmaker
- Steven SpielbergAmerican filmmaker
- Mark ZuckerbergAmerican Internet entrepreneur
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Liz’s cards
Computed from December 26, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Liz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6660222 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Liz Lochhead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Liz Lochhead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
