Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943, Boston, United States), aged 82, is an American literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award and Fulbright Scholarship.
Stephen Greenblatt’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
Stephen Greenblatt’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1943, 7,932 American boys and 19 girls were registered Stephen — 29th among boys and 2,069th 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
8 · 2 · 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 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 1943, 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 Stephen apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1974, when Stephen Greenblatt was 31.
Study took Stephen Greenblatt to Newton North High School and Pembroke College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Holberg Prize laureates, New Historicism and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Joni Mitchell 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
- Newton North High School, Pembroke College and Yale University
- Awards
- National Book Award (2011), Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2012)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen does not do surface. The core of Stephen 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 Stephen is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Stephen needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen 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 Stephen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen 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. Stephen 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: Stephen 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stephen is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stephen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Stephen Greenblatt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Boston at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 15.1° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boston on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 81% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Stephen Greenblatt's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Stephen Greenblatt was born on November 7, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Stephen Greenblatt's birth date, November 7, 1943, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Greenblatt's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, 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.
- Stephen Greenblatt combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Pisces 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
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.8° to 0.9° orb
Stephen’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto1.0° orb
Stephen’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 2.0° orb
Stephen’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.1° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 13°10′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 8°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 26°46′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 10°49′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.8°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
Born the same day as Stephen
Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Boston, at 42.4°N, nothing below −47.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Stephen
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Born in United States
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Stephen’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q639065 (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 Bachrach, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Greenblatt 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 Greenblatt.
Quick answers about Stephen Greenblatt’s chart
- How old is Stephen Greenblatt?
- Stephen Greenblatt is 82 years old, born November 7, 1943 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stephen Greenblatt?
- Stephen Greenblatt is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1943, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Stephen Greenblatt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1943 birth.
- What is Stephen Greenblatt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stephen Greenblatt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stephen Greenblatt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephen Greenblatt's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
