Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942, San Francisco, United States), aged 83, is an American poet. Olds's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Sharon Olds’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sharon
Sharon Olds’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Sharon in the U.S.?
#1256
US rank in 2025
~726,130
Americans share it since 1900
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 19,648 American girls and 78 boys named Sharon in 1942: 11th among girls and 731st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sharon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sharon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Sharon apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1981, when Sharon Olds was 39.
The schooling ran through Columbia University and Stanford University.
Wikipedia files Sharon Olds under People from Pittsfield, New Hampshire, T. S. Eliot Prize winners and Dana Hall School alumni.
Calvin Klein 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
- Columbia University and Stanford University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1981), Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2022) and Robert Frost Medal (2022)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Sharon, according to the stars
Core essence
Sharon does not do surface. The core of Sharon is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Sharon is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Sharon 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 Sharon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Sharon wants to be loved
Sharon wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Sharon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Sharon creates
How Sharon 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. Sharon 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: Sharon 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sharon 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 Sharon leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sharon runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Sharon's birth date. Working below.
Where Sharon sits
Six lines
Sharon’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 Sharon Olds
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 80.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Sharon's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Sharon Olds's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 19, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Sharon Olds was born on November 19, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Sharon Olds's birth date, November 19, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sharon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sharon Olds' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sharon Olds combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Sharon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° 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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.7° to 0.9° orb
Sharon’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.2° to 2.2° orb
Sharon’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° orb
Sharon’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.2° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.2° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Sharon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 28°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°03′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°58′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°28′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.3°
- Eros square Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron square Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.4°
- Chiron square Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.8°
Sharon’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Sharon’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.1°
Born the same day as Sharon
Calvin Klein was born on November 19, 1942 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Sharon
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Born in United States
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- Jerry JonesAmerican businessman and owner of the Dallas Cowboys
- Jimi HendrixAmerican guitarist
- Patricia McBrideAmerican ballet dancer
- Holland TaylorAmerican actress
- Michael CrichtonAmerican author, screenwriter, film director
More charts like Sharon’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Kate DouglassAmerican swimmer
- Caleb WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Amybeth McNultyIrish-Canadian actress
Born in Horse years
- Germán GarmendiaChilean YouTuber, comedian, and writer
- Loren GrayAmerican singer, social media personality, and model from Pennsylvania
- NingningChinese singer
Also born on November 19
- Indira Gandhi1917
- Jodie Foster1962
- Mette Frederiksen1977
- Ted Turner1938
- Adam Driver1983
- Calvin Klein1942
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete
- Kevin Rudd26th Prime Minister of Australia
- Alan RickmanBritish actor and director
Other Scorpio Horse charts
- Vanessa-MaeBritish violinist
- Sōichirō HondaJapanese engineer and industrialist
- Jeff BuckleyAmerican musician
- CM PunkAmerican professional wrestler, actor, and retired mixed martial artist
Other Radiant Scholars
- Shaun TanAustralian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker (born 1974)
- Joan D. VingeAmerican writer
- Peter S. BeagleAmerican writer
- Mario PuzoAmerican author, screenwriter, and journalist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jack KruschenCanadian actor
- Louise FletcherAmerican actress
- Christopher PlummerCanadian actor
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Sharon’s cards
Computed from November 19, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sharon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3180469 (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 Csabalete, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sharon Olds at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sharon Olds.
Quick answers about Sharon Olds’s chart
- How old is Sharon Olds?
- Sharon Olds is 83 years old, born November 19, 1942 in San Francisco, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sharon Olds?
- Sharon Olds is a Scorpio: born November 19, 1942, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Sharon Olds's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 19, 1942 birth.
- What is Sharon Olds's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sharon Olds's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sharon Olds's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sharon Olds's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
