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Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn (born June 24, 1939, Queens, United States; died 2021), was a Poet. Dunn played for Hofstra Pride men's basketball. Dunn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Stephen Dunn’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Stephen Dunn’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?

#383

US rank in 2025

~867,669

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

In 1939, 3,176 American boys and 8 girls were registered Stephen — 65th among boys and 3,395th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Stephen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Pearl · Gold

The record

What sets Stephen apart

Lionel Messi (1987) and Claudia Sheinbaum (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Stephen, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephen feels the room before entering it. The core of Stephen is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Stephen, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Stephen 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 Stephen 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 Stephen wants to be loved

Stephen 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 Stephen like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Stephen creates

How Stephen makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Stephen creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephen is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Stephen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Stephen goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Stephen's birth date. Working below.

Where Stephen sits

Six lines

Stephen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Stephen Dunn

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Stephen’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 16.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Queens that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Queens was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 79.8° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

Queens sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Queens on any night.

The Moon, 60% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Stephen's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Sun · Mars retrograde · 2 planets 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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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Stephen Dunn's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 24, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Stephen Dunn was born on June 24, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Stephen Dunn's birth date, June 24, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.5° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.7° orbSun in Cancer · 2°14′☉2°Moon in Libra · 8°21′☽8°Mercury in Cancer · 20°47′☿20°Venus in Gemini · 12°26′♀12°Mars in Aquarius · 4°41′ · retrograde♂℞4°Jupiter in Aries · 6°51′♃6°Saturn in Aries · 29°10′♄29°Uranus in Taurus · 20°20′♅20°Neptune in Virgo · 20°41′♆20°Pluto in Leo · 0°15′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Stephen’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Stephen’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Stephen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto1.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.6° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.2° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.6° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 10°52′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 7°58′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 19°40′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 7°53′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.7°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°

Stephen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Stephen’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.7°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 2.4°

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Stephen’s cards

Computed from June 24, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3973175 (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 Stephen Dunn 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 Stephen Dunn.

Quick answers about Stephen Dunn’s chart

What zodiac sign was Stephen Dunn?
Stephen Dunn was a Cancer: born June 24, 1939, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Stephen Dunn's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 24, 1939 birth.
What was Stephen Dunn's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Stephen Dunn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Stephen Dunn's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Stephen Dunn's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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