Roland Flint
Roland Flint (born February 27, 1934, Park River, United States; died 2001), was an American writer and academic. Flint served as Poet Laureate of Maryland.
Roland Flint’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Roland
Roland Flint’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Roland in the U.S.?
#608
US rank in 2025
~101,191
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1934, 1,445 American boys and 5 girls were registered Roland — 119th among boys and 4,850th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roland’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roland’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · 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 Roland apart
Study took Roland Flint to University of North Dakota and University of Minnesota.
Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.
On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from pancreatic cancer, People from Walsh County, North Dakota and Poets laureate of Maryland.
N. Scott Momaday shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of North Dakota, University of Minnesota and Marquette University
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Roland, according to the stars
Core essence
Roland feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Roland is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Roland needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Roland needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Roland wants to be loved
Roland wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Roland be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Roland creates
How Roland makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Roland creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Roland 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 1 is the pioneer. Roland is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Roland leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Roland 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 Roland's birth date. Working below.
Where Roland sits
Six lines
Roland’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Roland Flint
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Park River 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 Park River that night
Computed for 48.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Park River at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
At 48.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
How unusual Roland's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Roland Flint's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Roland Flint was born on February 27, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Roland Flint's birth date, February 27, 1934, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Roland’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roland Flint's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Roland Flint combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Roland’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Leo 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
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.7° orb
Roland’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Roland’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 1.8° orb
Roland’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Roland’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 29°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 27°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 29°16′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 5°31′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.5°
Roland’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Roland’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 · Jupiter, Uranus, 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Roland
N. Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Park River, at 48.4°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Roland
Other teachers
Born in United States
- Paul CohenAmerican mathematician
- Marilyn HorneAmerican mezzo-soprano opera singer (born 1934)
- Sydney PollackAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Chuck GrassleyUnited States Senator from Iowa since 1981
- Alan ArkinAmerican actor, filmmaker
- Sydney SchanbergAmerican journalist
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on February 27
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- Elizabeth Taylor1932
- James Wan1977
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Roland’s cards
Computed from February 27, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roland’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7360229 (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 Roland Flint at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roland Flint.
Quick answers about Roland Flint’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roland Flint?
- Roland Flint was a Pisces: born February 27, 1934, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Roland Flint's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1934 birth.
- What was Roland Flint's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roland Flint's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Roland Flint's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roland Flint's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
