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Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1947, Bogalusa, United States), aged 79, is an American poet and academic (born 1947). Komunyakaa's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award and Shelley Memorial Award.

Yusef Komunyakaa’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Yusef Komunyakaa’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Yusef in the U.S.?

#1904

US rank in 2025

~3,116

Americans share it since 1962

2024

its peak year

US records hold Yusef from 1962 onward, though not for 1947 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2024 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Yusef’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on Y (7) and closes on F (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Yusef’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Yusef apart

Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Yusef, according to the stars

Core essence

Yusef is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Yusef is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Yusef wants to be loved

Yusef wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Yusef creates

How Yusef makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Yusef creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Yusef is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Yusef is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Yusef gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Yusef's birth date. Working below.

Where Yusef sits

Six lines

Yusef’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Yusef

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Yusef

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Yusef

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Yusef

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Yusef

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Yusef

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Yusef’s birth-night reference starAlgiebawarm orange · LeoAlgieba, in Leo. A warm orange star, 79° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algieba →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 38.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Bogalusa that night

Computed for 30.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Bogalusa at 9 p.m. that evening: Algieba of Leo, within 11.0° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 30.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −59.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bogalusa on any night.

Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 73% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Yusef's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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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Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Yusef Komunyakaa's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Yusef Komunyakaa was born on April 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Yusef Komunyakaa's birth date, April 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Yusef’s chart

Yusef’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 5° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.5° orbSun in Taurus · 8°32′☉8°Moon in Virgo · 1°35′☽1°Mercury in Aries · 21°33′☿21°Venus in Aries · 5°29′♀5°Mars in Aries · 13°43′♂13°Jupiter in Scorpio · 24°31′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Leo · 2°33′♄2°Uranus in Gemini · 19°25′♅19°Neptune in Libra · 8°40′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Leo · 10°59′♇10°

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

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.3° to 3.0° orb

    Yusef’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.0° to 2.9° orb

    Yusef’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.1° orb

    Yusef’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.5° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.6° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 4.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Yusef’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 5°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 7°25′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 25°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°58′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 9°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.9°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.7°

Yusef’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Yusef’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.8°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.9°

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Yusef’s cards

Computed from April 29, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Yusef’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2601996 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Yusef Komunyakaa at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yusef Komunyakaa.

Quick answers about Yusef Komunyakaa’s chart

How old is Yusef Komunyakaa?
Yusef Komunyakaa is 79 years old, born April 29, 1947 in Bogalusa, United States.
What zodiac sign is Yusef Komunyakaa?
Yusef Komunyakaa is a Taurus: born April 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Yusef Komunyakaa's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1947 birth.
What is Yusef Komunyakaa's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Yusef Komunyakaa's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Yusef Komunyakaa's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Yusef Komunyakaa's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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