Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (born October 27, 1932, Boston, United States, 14:10; died 1963), was an American poet and writer. Plath is best remembered for The Colossus, The Bell Jar and Ariel. Plath's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Fulbright Scholarship and Glascock Prize.
Sylvia Plath’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Sylvia Plath’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Sylvia in the U.S.?
#300
US rank in 2025
~245,978
Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
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Sylvia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Sylvia, according to the stars
Core essence
Sylvia does not do surface. The core of Sylvia 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 Sylvia is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Sylvia 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 Sylvia 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 Sylvia wants to be loved
Sylvia 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 Sylvia and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Sylvia creates
How Sylvia makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Sylvia creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Sylvia is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Sylvia 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sylvia fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Sylvia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sylvia sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Sylvia Plath's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Sylvia Plath's birth date, October 27, 1932, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Sylvia’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Sylvia Plath's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house and Mars in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Sylvia Plath's timed chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Sylvia Plath combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Sylvia’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysquareMarsseparating · 0.2° orb
Sylvia’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussextilePlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
Sylvia’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarstrineUranusseparating · 0.4° orb
Sylvia’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurytrinePlutoapplying · 2.0° orb
Sylvia’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 2.2° orb
Sylvia’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb
Sylvia’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 5.0° orb
Sylvia’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.2° orb
Sylvia’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareSaturnseparating · 5.5° orb
Sylvia’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 6.4° orb
Sylvia’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 7.6° orb
Sylvia’s affections and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sylvia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 27°15′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Sylvia building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 20°29′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Sylvia caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosVirgo 17°28′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Sylvia is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLibra 16°43′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Sylvia is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 19°52′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Sylvia is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron square Ascendant 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Sylvia’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Sylvia is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Sylvia’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.9°
- Moon semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
Sylvia’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 3 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 8 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 7 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 8 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 9 | Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 10 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 10 | Venus, Jupiter, Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 8 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 6 | Sun, Mercury | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 12 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Sylvia’s cards
Every card is computed from October 27, 1932, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Sylvia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133054, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Giovanni Giovannetti/Grazia Neri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sylvia Plath at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Sylvia Plath’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sylvia Plath?
- Sylvia Plath was a Scorpio: born October 27, 1932, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey.
- What was Sylvia Plath's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1932 birth.
- What time was Sylvia Plath born?
- 14:10 local time in Boston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Sylvia Plath's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 14:10 birth time in Boston, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Sylvia Plath's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 27, 1932 birth date.
- What was Sylvia Plath's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 27, 1932 birth time.
- Where was Sylvia Plath's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 19°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sylvia Plath's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
