Reed Whittemore
Reed Whittemore (born September 11, 1919, New Haven, United States; died 2012), was an American poet. Whittemore served as United States Poet Laureate. Whittemore's honours include Guggenheim Fellowship.
Reed Whittemore’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Reed
Reed Whittemore’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 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Reed in the U.S.?
#419
US rank in 2025
~36,977
Americans share it since 1881
2014
its peak year
The SSA recorded 104 American boys named Reed in 1919: 592nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Reed’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Reed’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Reed apart
Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Reed, according to the stars
Core essence
Reed notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Reed is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Reed runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Reed needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Reed wants to be loved
Reed wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Reed and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Reed creates
How Reed 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. Reed 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: Reed is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Reed is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Reed fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Reed's birth date. Working below.
Where Reed sits
Six lines
Reed’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Reed Whittemore
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Haven 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 New Haven that night
Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Haven was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 85.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
New Haven sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Haven at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon up and 95% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Reed's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Reed Whittemore's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Reed Whittemore was born on September 11, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Reed Whittemore's birth date, September 11, 1919, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Reed’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Reed Whittemore's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Reed Whittemore 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.
Reed’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° Aries 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
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
Reed’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 3.1° orb
Reed’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.6° to 2.2° orb
Reed’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.5° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.4° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.7° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Reed’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 5°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 0°28′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 22°21′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 25°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.2°
Reed’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Reed’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
More people like Reed
Other poets
- Alfred Kastler1902
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Marya Zaturenska1902
- Gwyn Thomas1936
- Mikhail Sholokhov1905
- Charles Levendosky1936
Born in United States
- Tim HoltAmerican actor
- Don Edward FehrenbacherAmerican historian
- Eddie SnyderAmerican composer and songwriter
- Owen ChamberlainAmerican physicist
- Nat King ColeAmerican singer and jazz pianist
- John La MontaineAmerican musician
More charts like Reed’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Kyren WilliamsAmerican football running back
- Evan NealAmerican football offensive tackle
- Jaylen WatsonAmerican football cornerback
Born in Goat years
- Ousmane DiengFrench basketball player (born 2003)
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
- Nikola JovićSerbian basketball player (born 2003)
Also born on September 11
- Taraji P. Henson1970
- Julia Nickson-Soul1958
- Mike Comrie1980
- Charles Kelley1981
- Phillip Alford1948
- Harry Connick Jr.1967
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Hedi SlimaneFrench Tunisian fashion designer
- Folorunso AlakijaNigerian businessperson and philanthropist
- Luna MayaIndonesian actress, presenter and singer
Other Virgo Goat charts
- Stephen KurkjianAmerican journalist
- Relman Morin20th-century American journalist
- Lois WilleAmerican journalist and author
- George JonesAmerican country musician
Other Radiant Explorers
- Art GarfunkelAmerican singer
- Camila MendesAmerican actress
- Yann Le CunFrench computer scientist
- King VonAmerican rapper
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Miles DavisAmerican jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
- Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician
- Francis CrickBritish molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
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Reed’s cards
Computed from September 11, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Reed’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7306708 (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 Reed Whittemore at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Reed Whittemore.
Quick answers about Reed Whittemore’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Reed Whittemore?
- Reed Whittemore was a Virgo: born September 11, 1919, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Reed Whittemore's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1919 birth.
- What was Reed Whittemore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Reed Whittemore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Reed Whittemore's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Reed Whittemore's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
