Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (born June 6, 1925, Philadelphia, United States; died 2014), was an American poet and author. Kumin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Robert Frost Medal.
Maxine Kumin’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Maxine
Maxine Kumin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Maxine in the U.S.?
#497
US rank in 2025
~115,989
Americans share it since 1884
1924
its peak year
The SSA recorded 3,538 American girls and 15 boys named Maxine in 1925: 79th among girls and 2,149th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maxine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maxine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
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
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 1925, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Maxine apart
The Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize came in 1972, when Maxine Kumin was 47.
The schooling ran through Cheltenham High School and Radcliffe College.
Cause of death is recorded as disease.
Wikipedia files Maxine Kumin under People from Warner, New Hampshire, Tufts University faculty and Poets laureate of New Hampshire.
Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cheltenham High School, Radcliffe College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1999), Robert Frost Medal (2006) and Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize (1972)
- Cause of death
- disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Maxine, according to the stars
Core essence
Maxine 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. Maxine needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Maxine is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Maxine needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Maxine wants to be loved
Maxine wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Maxine like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Maxine creates
How Maxine makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Maxine creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Maxine is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Maxine is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Maxine does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Maxine's birth date. Working below.
Where Maxine sits
Six lines
Maxine’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Maxine Kumin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 88.2° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Philadelphia on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
The death is recorded at Warner, Merrimack County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maxine Kumin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maxine's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Maxine Kumin at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Maxine Kumin's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Maxine Kumin was born on June 6, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Maxine Kumin's birth date, June 6, 1925, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Maxine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maxine Kumin's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, 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.
- Maxine Kumin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Maxine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.4° orb
Maxine’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.5° to 4.2° orb
Maxine’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Maxine’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.5° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.7° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 3.9° to 5.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 5.5° to 18.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 5.8° to 20.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Maxine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 18°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 18°06′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 14°49′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Eros square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.3°
Maxine’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon2 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto
Configurations in Maxine’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Maxine’s cards
Computed from June 6, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maxine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2714693 (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.
Portrait by Marthe Willendyck (mother of Thierry Bingen at English Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxine Kumin at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maxine Kumin.
Quick answers about Maxine Kumin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maxine Kumin?
- Maxine Kumin was a Gemini: born June 6, 1925, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Maxine Kumin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1925 birth.
- What was Maxine Kumin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Maxine Kumin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Maxine Kumin'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 Maxine Kumin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
