Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947, Vallejo, United States), aged 79, is an American poet (born 1947). Armantrout's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Rae Armantrout’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Rae
Rae Armantrout’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rae in the U.S.?
#1306
US rank in 2025
~24,420
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
Rae ranked 438th among girls and 1,973rd among boys in 1947, the year of this birth, with 350 American girls and 16 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rae’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rae’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Rae apart
Rae Armantrout took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, at 61.
San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley shaped the training.
Rae Armantrout was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Rae Armantrout under Writers from Vallejo, California, Language poets and University of California, San Diego faculty.
Thomas Jefferson (1743) and Samuel Beckett (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2009) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Rae, according to the stars
Core essence
Rae 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 Rae 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 Rae wants to be loved
Rae 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 Rae, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Rae creates
How Rae makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Rae 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: Rae 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Rae is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Rae 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 Rae's birth date. Working below.
Where Rae sits
Six lines
Rae’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Rae Armantrout
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vallejo 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 Vallejo that night
Computed for 38.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Vallejo at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vallejo at all: they sit past the −51.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 44% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
How unusual Rae's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Earth planets
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Rae Armantrout's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Rae Armantrout was born on April 13, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Rae Armantrout's birth date, April 13, 1947, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Rae’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rae Armantrout's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Rae Armantrout combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Rae’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.3° orb
Rae’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 1.0° orb
Rae’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussquareUranus1.6° to 2.8° orb
Rae’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.9° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.8° to 5.9° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 6.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Rae’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 6°29′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 1°24′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 14°48′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Mars 0.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.9°
- Eros square Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
- Eros trine Sun 2.8°
Rae’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Rae’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.7°
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Fellow Aries suns
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- Florian WiegeleAustrian footballer (born 2001
- Kento ShiogaiJapanese footballer (born 2005)
Born in Pig years
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Also born on April 13
- Thomas Jefferson1743
- Samuel Beckett1906
- Seamus Heaney1939
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- Ty Dolla Sign1982
Fellow Yang Water day masters
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Other Aries Pig charts
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Rae’s cards
Computed from April 13, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rae’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7281906 (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 kellywritershouse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rae Armantrout at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rae Armantrout.
Quick answers about Rae Armantrout’s chart
- How old is Rae Armantrout?
- Rae Armantrout is 79 years old, born April 13, 1947 in Vallejo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rae Armantrout?
- Rae Armantrout is an Aries: born April 13, 1947, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Rae Armantrout's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1947 birth.
- What is Rae Armantrout's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rae Armantrout's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rae Armantrout's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rae Armantrout's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
