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, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Louis
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
Louis ranked 27th among boys and 1,044th among girls in 1923, the year of this birth, with 7,074 American boys and 53 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (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
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Louis apart
Louis Simpson took the Rome Prize in 1958, at 35.
Columbia University School of General Studies and Columbia University shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as Alzheimer's disease.
Wikipedia's editors put Louis Simpson under Jamaican people of Jewish descent, Stony Brook University faculty and Linguists from Jamaica.
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845) and Mariah Carey (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University School of General Studies and Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1964), Rome Prize (1958) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Poetry and Griffin Poetry Prize
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
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. Working below.
Where Louis sits
Six lines
Louis’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 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.
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 Louis Simpson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingston 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 Kingston that night
Computed for 17.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Acubens stood nearest the zenith over Kingston at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Cancer.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 18.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 74% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kingston, Jamaica
The death is recorded at Stony Brook, Brookhaven in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Louis Simpson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Neptune
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableUranustrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 16°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°41′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 4°09′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.1°
Louis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Louis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Louis
Other poets
- Lisel Mueller1924
- Thomas L. Mobley1916
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Mikhail Sholokhov1905
- Shimon Peres1923
- William Jay Smith1918
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- Usain BoltJamaican sprinter
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on March 27
- Wilhelm Röntgen1845
- Mariah Carey1969
- Quentin Tarantino1963
- Lisa1997
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Andy SerkisBritish actor
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Other Aries Pig charts
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- John RatzenbergerAmerican actor (born 1947)
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Other Steadfast Visionarys
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- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
- Russell SimmonsAmerican entrepreneur and record executive
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Élie DucommunSwiss activist
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Louis’s cards
Computed from March 27, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1871997 (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 Louis Simpson 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 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.
- 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 was Louis Simpson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Louis Simpson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
