W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (born February 21, 1907, York, United Kingdom; died 1973), was a British-American poet. Auden is best remembered for The Orators. Auden's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.
W. H. Auden’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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W. H. Auden’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
W. H. Auden’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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What the chart says
W. H. Auden, according to the stars
Core essence
W. H. Auden feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of W. H. Auden is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, W. H. Auden processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What W. H. Auden needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How W. H. Auden wants to be loved
W. H. Auden wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show W. H. Auden you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How W. H. Auden creates
How W. H. Auden makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. W. H. Auden 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: W. H. Auden 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. W. H. Auden is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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. H. Auden 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.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
W. H. Auden's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
W. H. Auden was born on February 21, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
W. H. Auden's birth date, February 21, 1907, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in W. H. Auden’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in W. H. Auden's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- W. H. Auden combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
W. H. Auden’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for W. H. Auden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 21° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 5.5° orb
W. H. Auden’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.0° to 6.1° orb
W. H. Auden’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.5° orb
W. H. Auden’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
W. H. Auden’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.2° to 1.2° orb
W. H. Auden’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.8° to 1.4° orb
W. H. Auden’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.4° orb
W. H. Auden’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
W. H. Auden’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
W. H. Auden’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.5° to 6.2° orb
W. H. Auden’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.8° orb
W. H. Auden’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
W. H. Auden’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
W. H. Auden’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 14°17′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has W. H. Auden making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresGemini 8°59′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has W. H. Auden feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 1°01′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. W. H. Auden is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 14°30′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has W. H. Auden needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 24°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of W. H. Auden that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres opposition Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.9°
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°).
W. H. Auden’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 7 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: W. H. Auden is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 W. H. Auden’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for W. H. Auden, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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W. H. Auden’s cards
Every card is computed from February 21, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for W. H. Auden, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
W. H. Auden’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q178698, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same W. H. Auden 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 W. H. Auden’s chart
- What zodiac sign was W. H. Auden?
- W. H. Auden was a Pisces: born February 21, 1907, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was W. H. Auden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1907 birth.
- What time was W. H. Auden born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was W. H. Auden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 21, 1907 birth date.
- What was W. H. Auden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 21, 1907 birth date.
- Where was W. H. Auden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was W. H. Auden's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: disposes Venus, Uranus; 7 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
