Mark Strand
Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934, Summerside, Canada; died 2014), was a Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator. Strand's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Fulbright Scholarship and Bollingen Prize.
Mark Strand’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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Mark Strand’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Mark in the U.S.?
#245
US rank in 2025
~1,366,672
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mark, according to the stars
Core essence
Mark 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 Mark 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Mark 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 Mark 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 Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Mark, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Mark creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Mark is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Mark 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Mark gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Mark's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mark sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Mark Strand's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1934, 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.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Mark Strand was born on April 11, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Mark Strand's birth date, April 11, 1934, 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 Mark’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mark Strand's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mark Strand combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mark Strand, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Pisces 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.
stableMarssquarePluto0.4° to 1.2° orb
Mark’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Mark’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunsquarePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
Mark’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Mark’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.9° to 3.2° orb
Mark’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb
Mark’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
Mark’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb
Mark’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsextileSaturn4.1° to 4.9° orb
Mark’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
Mark’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.5° to 4.7° orb
Mark’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
Mark’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Mark’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 1°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Mark turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Mark is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 0°52′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Mark wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°17′ (moves 0.31° 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. Mark is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Mark guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.7°
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°).
Mark’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. ♂ Mars12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Mark 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 Mark’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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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 Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mark Strand, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Mark’s cards
Every card is computed from April 11, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mark Strand, 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
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q928775, 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 Mark Strand 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 Mark Strand.
Quick answers about Mark Strand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mark Strand?
- Mark Strand was an Aries: born April 11, 1934, 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 Wood Dog.
- What was Mark Strand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1934 birth.
- What time was Mark Strand 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 Mark Strand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 11, 1934 birth date.
- What was Mark Strand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 11, 1934 birth date.
- Where was Mark Strand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mark Strand's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
