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W. D. Snodgrass

W. D. Snodgrass (born January 5, 1926, Beaver Falls, United States; died 2009), was an American poet. Snodgrass's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.

W. D. Snodgrass’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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W. D. Snodgrass’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

What W. D. Snodgrass’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

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

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

W. D. Snodgrass’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

The record

What sets W. D. Snodgrass apart

Umberto Eco (1932) and Bradley Cooper (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

W. D. Snodgrass, according to the stars

Core essence

W. D. Snodgrass is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of W. D. Snodgrass is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How W. D. Snodgrass wants to be loved

W. D. Snodgrass wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let W. D. Snodgrass be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How W. D. Snodgrass creates

How W. D. Snodgrass makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. W. D. Snodgrass builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: W. D. Snodgrass is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. W. D. Snodgrass is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. W. D. Snodgrass has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from W. D. Snodgrass's birth date. Working below.

Where W. D. Snodgrass sits

Six lines

W. D. Snodgrass’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
W. D. Snodgrass

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
W. D. Snodgrass

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

PrivateExpressive
W. D. Snodgrass

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
W. D. Snodgrass

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
W. D. Snodgrass

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
W. D. Snodgrass

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to W. D. Snodgrass

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

W. D. Snodgrass’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 84° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 72.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Beaver Falls that night

Computed for 40.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Beaver Falls was Menkib, in Perseus, 84.0° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Beaver Falls sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Beaver Falls on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 62% lit at last quarter.

How unusual W.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

W. D. Snodgrass's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

W. D. Snodgrass was born on January 5, 1926, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

W. D. Snodgrass's birth date, January 5, 1926, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in W. D. Snodgrass’s chart

W. D. Snodgrass’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°37′☉14°Moon in Virgo · 26°36′☽26°Mercury in Sagittarius · 22°42′☿22°Venus in Aquarius · 23°16′♀23°Mars in Sagittarius · 5°58′♂5°Jupiter in Capricorn · 29°55′♃29°Saturn in Scorpio · 23°14′♄23°Uranus in Pisces · 22°05′♅22°Neptune in Leo · 24°23′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Cancer · 13°39′ · retrograde♇℞13°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb

    W. D. Snodgrass’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb

    W. D. Snodgrass’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.2° to 1.0° orb

    W. D. Snodgrass’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

W. D. Snodgrass’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 23°46′

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 25°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 23°07′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 17°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Saturn 0.1°
  • Eros square Venus 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
  • Eros square Neptune 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.4°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 2.5°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.6°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 3.0°

W. D. Snodgrass’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in W. D. Snodgrass’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.3°

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W. D. Snodgrass’s cards

Computed from January 5, 1926. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

W. D. Snodgrass’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1334959 (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 W. D. Snodgrass at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about W. D. Snodgrass’s chart

What zodiac sign was W. D. Snodgrass?
W. D. Snodgrass was a Capricorn: born January 5, 1926, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was W. D. Snodgrass's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1926 birth.
What was W. D. Snodgrass's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was W. D. Snodgrass's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was W. D. Snodgrass's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was W. D. Snodgrass's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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