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W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin (born September 30, 1927, New York City, United States; died 2019), was an American poet. Merwin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.

W. S. Merwin’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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W. S. Merwin’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

W. S. Merwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

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What the chart says

W. S. Merwin, according to the stars

Core essence

W. S. Merwin makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of W. S. Merwin is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How W. S. Merwin wants to be loved

W. S. Merwin 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 W. S. Merwin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How W. S. Merwin creates

How W. S. Merwin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. W. S. Merwin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: W. S. Merwin is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. W. S. Merwin 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. W. S. Merwin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from W. S. Merwin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where W. S. Merwin sits

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Intimate circleWide network
W. S. Merwin

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

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

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to W. S. Merwin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

W. S. Merwin’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 78.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 15.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

W. S. Merwin at a glance

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

W. S. Merwin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Fire Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

W. S. Merwin was born on September 30, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

W. S. Merwin's birth date, September 30, 1927, 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. S. Merwin’s chart

W. S. Merwin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for W. S. Merwin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.1° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.9° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 4° orbSun in Libra · 6°32′☉6°Moon in Scorpio · 28°34′☽28°Mercury in Libra · 26°14′☿26°Venus in Virgo · 8°54′ · retrograde♀℞8°Mars in Libra · 13°08′♂13°Jupiter in Pisces · 27°25′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Sagittarius · 3°26′♄3°Uranus in Aries · 1°13′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Leo · 28°09′♆28°Pluto in Cancer · 17°05′♇17°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMoonsquareNeptune0.1° to 6.4° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune1.2° to 2.6° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.1° to 2.3° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.6° to 4.3° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.8° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.3° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.4° to 5.5° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.9° to 6.1° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars6.4° to 6.8° orb

    W. S. Merwin’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

W. S. Merwin’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 4°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    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 W. S. Merwin building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°02′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. W. S. Merwin is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 8°05′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. W. S. Merwin is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 8°51′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has W. S. Merwin carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of W. S. Merwin that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

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.

  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.0°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.9°

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. S. Merwin’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. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: W. S. Merwin is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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. S. Merwin’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, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

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 semi-square Neptune 0.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for W. S. Merwin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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W. S. Merwin’s cards

Every card is computed from September 30, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for W. S. Merwin, 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. S. Merwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q680368, 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 Bernard Tardien, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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. S. Merwin’s chart

What zodiac sign was W. S. Merwin?
W. S. Merwin was a Libra: born September 30, 1927, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
What was W. S. Merwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1927 birth.
What time was W. S. Merwin 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. S. Merwin's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the September 30, 1927 birth date.
What was W. S. Merwin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 30, 1927 birth date.
Where was W. S. Merwin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was W. S. Merwin's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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