Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren (born June 13, 1894, Vermilion County, United States; died 1972), was an American poet and literary critic. Doren's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Emerson-Thoreau Medal and Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.
Mark Van Doren’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Mark Van Doren’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · 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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Mark needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Mark is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mark creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Mark is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Mark slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Mark Van Doren's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1894, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseOpen road, open heart.
Mark Van Doren was born on June 13, 1894, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Mark Van Doren's birth date, June 13, 1894, 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 Van Doren's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mark Van Doren combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mark Van Doren, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Mark’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Mark’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.2° to 3.7° orb
Mark’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.3° to 2.6° orb
Mark’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
Mark’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 4.5° orb
Mark’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Mark’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
Mark’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.7° to 4.0° orb
Mark’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Mark’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.3° to 5.5° orb
Mark’s growth and depths act as one.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.3° to 7.0° orb
Mark’s core identity and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 15°35′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Mark turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresVirgo 18°18′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Mark caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosLibra 2°27′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Mark is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 7°27′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Mark carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 18°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Mark is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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 sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.8°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Mark is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gemini · Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
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 Jupiter 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mark Van Doren, 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 June 13, 1894, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mark Van Doren, 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 Q975491, 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.
Portrait by Doris Ulmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mark Van Doren at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Van Doren.
Quick answers about Mark Van Doren’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mark Van Doren?
- Mark Van Doren was a Gemini: born June 13, 1894, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse.
- What was Mark Van Doren's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1894 birth.
- What time was Mark Van Doren 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 Van Doren's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1894 birth date.
- What was Mark Van Doren's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1894 birth date.
- Where was Mark Van Doren's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mark Van Doren's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
