Louis Simpson
Louis Simpson (born March 27, 1923, Kingston, Jamaica; died 2012), was a Jamaican-american poet. Simpson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
Louis Simpson’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Louis Simpson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Louis in the U.S.?
#249
US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Louis, according to the stars
Core essence
Louis leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Louis is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis 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 Louis be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Louis creates
How Louis 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. Louis 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: Louis 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Louis is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Louis 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 Louis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Louis sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Louis Simpson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 27, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Louis Simpson was born on March 27, 1923, which falls in a Water 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 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Louis Simpson's birth date, March 27, 1923, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis Simpson's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Louis Simpson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Louis Simpson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.6° to 1.4° orb
Louis’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.2° to 1.9° orb
Louis’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb
Louis’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.0° orb
Louis’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Louis’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquarePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
Louis’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Louis’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
Louis’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.3° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineJupiterorb from 5.2° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 5.5° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Louis’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.
⚷ ChironAries 16°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Louis may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°41′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Louis is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 4°09′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Louis is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Louis is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Louis carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.1°
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°).
Louis’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Louis is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Louis’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.
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Louis Simpson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Louis
Other poets
- Lisel Mueller1924
- Thomas L. Mobley1916
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Mikhail Sholokhov1905
- Shimon Peres1923
- William Jay Smith1918
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Louis’s cards
Every card is computed from March 27, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Louis Simpson, 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
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1871997, 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.
The same Louis Simpson 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 Louis Simpson.
Quick answers about Louis Simpson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Louis Simpson?
- Louis Simpson was an Aries: born March 27, 1923, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Louis Simpson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 27, 1923 birth.
- What time was Louis Simpson 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 was Louis Simpson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 27, 1923 birth date.
- What was Louis Simpson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 27, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Louis Simpson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Louis Simpson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
