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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Mark
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
Of the names registered in 1934, Mark came 185th among boys and 2,255th among girls, carried by 702 American boys and 14 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mark’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
2
Soul Urge · closeness
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Mark apart
Mark Strand took the Fulbright Scholarship in 1961, at 27.
The classrooms behind this chart: Oakwood Friends School and Antioch University.
The working life starts in 1964, at 30.
Cause of death is recorded as liposarcoma.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mark Strand: People from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Poets from Utah and Deaths from liposarcoma.
Alessandra Ambrosio (1981) and Duncan Laurence (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Oakwood Friends School, Antioch University and Antioch College
- Awards
- Fulbright Scholarship (1961), United States Poet Laureate (1991) and Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry (1992)
- Working from
- 1964
- Cause of death
- liposarcoma
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
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. Working below.
Where Mark sits
Six lines
Mark’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Mark Strand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Summerside 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 Summerside that night
Computed for 46.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Summerside was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Summerside sits at 46.4°N, high enough that 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 −43.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Summerside, Canada
The death is recorded at Brooklyn, New York City in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mark Strand: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mark's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Pluto
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 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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Pisces 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
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
stableMercurytrinePluto1.9° to 3.2° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 1°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 0°52′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°17′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mark’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mark’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Mark
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- Cormac McCarthy1933
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- Sydney Schanberg1934
Born in Canada
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- Leonard CohenCanadian singer, songwriter and poet
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- Christopher PlummerCanadian actor
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Fellow Aries suns
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Born in Dog years
- Camila AlvesBrazilian model and designer (born 1983)
- Lauren AlainaAmerican singer & songwriter (born 1994)
- Sam AsghariIranian-American model and fitness trainer (born 1994)
Also born on April 11
- Alessandra Ambrosio1981
- Duncan Laurence1994
- Thiago Alcântara1991
- Summer Walker1996
- Danielle Marsh2005
- Stephanie Pratt1986
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Barton MacLaneactor, playwright, screenwriter
- Kevin J. O'ConnorAmerican actor
- Maria BelloAmerican actress
Other Aries Dog charts
- Arthur MitchellAmerican dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Michael GregoritschAustrian association football player (born 1994)
- Douglas SantosBrazilian footballer (born 1994)
- Fabian MoreauAmerican football cornerback
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Stephen CollinsAmerican actor
- Andy CohenAmerican radio and television talk show host
- Andi DorfmanAmerican television personality
- Mamie GummerAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Garrett BradburyAmerican football Center
- Cole KmetAmerican football tight end
- Nick Westbrook-IkhineAmerican football wide receiver
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Mark’s cards
Computed from April 11, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q928775 (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 Mark Strand 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 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.
- 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 was Mark Strand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mark Strand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
