Stanley Middleton
Stanley Middleton (born August 1, 1919, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; died 2009), was a British writer. Middleton's honours include Booker Prize, honorary master's degree and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Stanley Middleton’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Stanley
Stanley Middleton’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
In 1919, 5,238 American boys and 25 girls were registered Stanley — 37th among boys and 1,642nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stanley’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 S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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
11 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Stanley apart
Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Stanley cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Stanley needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Stanley wants to be loved
Stanley 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 Stanley and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Stanley creates
How Stanley makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Stanley creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Stanley 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Stanley 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Stanley does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Stanley Middleton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire that night
Computed for 53.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nottinghamshire was Rastaban, in Draco, 81.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 53.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nottinghamshire at all: they sit past the −36.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 31% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.
How unusual Stanley's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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 →Stanley Middleton at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Stanley Middleton's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Stanley Middleton was born on August 1, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Stanley Middleton's birth date, August 1, 1919, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Stanley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanley Middleton's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Stanley Middleton combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Stanley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Libra 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
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
Stanley’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
Stanley’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.6° orb
Stanley’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.0° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionJupiterorb from 8.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Stanley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°47′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 5°20′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 18°22′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°28′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°05′ (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 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.4°
- Eros trine Venus 1.4°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.6°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.8°
Stanley’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Stanley’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.8°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
More people like Stanley
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- Indira Gandhi1917
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Born in United Kingdom
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Also born on August 1
- Georges Charpak1924
- Yves Saint Laurent1936
- Jason Momoa1979
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- Léon BourgeoisFrench statesman
- Léon JouhauxFrench trade unionist
Other Leo Goat charts
- Mick JaggerBritish singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
- Jason StathamEnglish actor
- Roger PenroseEnglish mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
- Matt LeBlancAmerican actor
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
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- Ariel WinterAmerican actress
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Gary OldmanBritish actor and filmmaker (born 1958)
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Stanley’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q727856 (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 Stanley Middleton at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stanley Middleton.
Quick answers about Stanley Middleton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stanley Middleton?
- Stanley Middleton was a Leo: born August 1, 1919, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Stanley Middleton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1919 birth.
- What was Stanley Middleton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stanley Middleton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stanley Middleton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stanley Middleton's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
