Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz (born July 29, 1905, Worcester, United States; died 2006), was an American poet. Kunitz's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Robert Frost Medal.
Stanley Kunitz’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Stanley
Stanley Kunitz’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Stanley in the U.S.?
#863
US rank in 2025
~302,862
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
The SSA recorded 384 American boys named Stanley in 1905: 66th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stanley’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 S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stanley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
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 1905, 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 Stanley apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1945, when Stanley Kunitz was 40.
Study took Stanley Kunitz to Harvard University.
Wikipedia files Stanley Kunitz under English-language poets, Jewish pacifists and American librarianship and human rights.
Dag Hammarskjöld 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
- Harvard University
- Awards
- Bollingen Prize (1987), Guggenheim Fellowship (1945) and Robert Frost Medal (1998)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 27
What the chart says
Stanley, according to the stars
Core essence
Stanley is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Stanley is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Stanley wants to be loved
Stanley 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 Stanley like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Stanley creates
How Stanley 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. Stanley 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: Stanley is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Stanley is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Stanley 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 Stanley's birth date. Working below.
Where Stanley sits
Six lines
Stanley’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 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 Stanley Kunitz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worcester 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 Worcester that night
Computed for 42.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Worcester at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Worcester sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Worcester on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Worcester, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stanley Kunitz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stanley's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Stanley Kunitz's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Stanley Kunitz's birth date, July 29, 1905, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Stanley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanley Kunitz's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto, 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.
- Stanley Kunitz combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Stanley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Stanley’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.1° to 0.3° orb
Stanley’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Stanley’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 6.2° to 19.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 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.
Stanley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 3°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 18°17′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 15°37′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°59′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 2.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.9°
Stanley’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Stanley’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.4°
Born the same day as Stanley
Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Worcester, at 42.3°N, nothing below −47.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in United States
- John HustonAmerican film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Wendell Meredith StanleyAmerican biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- James StillAmerican poet from Alabama
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- Bruce BennettAmerican actor
- Moss HartAmerican playwright, librettist, and theatre director
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Stanley’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1974852 (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 US gov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stanley Kunitz 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 Stanley Kunitz.
Quick answers about Stanley Kunitz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stanley Kunitz?
- Stanley Kunitz was a Leo: born July 29, 1905, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Stanley Kunitz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1905 birth.
- What was Stanley Kunitz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stanley Kunitz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stanley Kunitz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stanley Kunitz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
