Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke (born May 25, 1908, Saginaw, United States; died 1963), was an American poet. Roethke is best remembered for The Waking. Roethke's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Fulbright Scholarship.
Theodore Roethke’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Theodore
Theodore Roethke’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Theodore in the U.S.?
#4
US rank in 2025
~318,175
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
In 1908, 643 American boys and 5 girls were registered Theodore — 47th among boys and 2,398th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Theodore’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (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
Theodore’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Theodore apart
Ian McKellen (1939) and Cillian Murphy (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Theodore, according to the stars
Core essence
Theodore is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Theodore needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Theodore runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Theodore needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Theodore wants to be loved
Theodore wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Theodore gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Theodore creates
How Theodore makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Theodore creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Theodore 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Theodore is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Theodore 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 Theodore's birth date. Working below.
Where Theodore sits
Six lines
Theodore’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The sky over Saginaw that night
Computed for 43.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Saginaw at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Saginaw sits at 43.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 18% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
How unusual Theodore's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A leaning bowl
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Theodore Roethke's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Theodore Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Theodore Roethke's birth date, May 25, 1908, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Theodore’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Theodore Roethke's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Theodore Roethke combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Theodore’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.6° orb
Theodore’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.5° to 0.6° orb
Theodore’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.8° to 1.5° orb
Theodore’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.2° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Theodore’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°23′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 24°01′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°05′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres square Mars 2.4°
Theodore’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Theodore’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.7°
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Born in Monkey years
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- Sam HeughanScottish actor
Also born on May 25
- Ian McKellen1939
- Cillian Murphy1976
- Kagiso Rabada1995
- Chloé Lukasiak2001
- Amy Klobuchar1960
- Anne Heche1969
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- George ChakirisAmerican actor
- Mary SteenburgenAmerican actress, singer and songwriter
- Christine KaufmannGerman actress and businesswoman
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Other Gilded Healers
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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Theodore’s cards
Computed from May 25, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Theodore’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1151763 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Theodore Roethke’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Theodore Roethke?
- Theodore Roethke was a Gemini: born May 25, 1908, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Theodore Roethke's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1908 birth.
- What was Theodore Roethke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Theodore Roethke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Theodore Roethke's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Theodore Roethke's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
