W. H. Auden’s birth chart
Born 21 February 1907, in York, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Gemini Moon
W. H. Auden’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
W. H. Auden was born on Thursday, 21 February 1907, in York, England. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Gemini. They died on 29 September 1973, aged 66. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the ten planets, five are in water signs, two in earth, two in air and one in fire. By modality the count is six mutable, four cardinal and no fixed. Pisces holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Saturn. The tightest aspect is Venus sextile Saturn, about 0.4° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Three planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Over the course of the day the Moon went from first quarter to waxing gibbous.
StarMap's dataset holds 23 other people born on 21 February, among them Corbin Bleu, Alan Rickman and Anaïs Nin.
W. H. Auden’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 1° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make W. H. Auden the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Gemini
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For W. H. Auden, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over York, England, at each hour of the day.
W. H. Auden’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for W. H. Auden yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 21 February 1907, computed for York, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 02:00 to 04:30 | Sagittarius rising |
| 04:30 to 06:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 06:15 to 07:20 | Aquarius rising |
| 07:20 to 08:05 | Pisces rising |
| 08:05 to 08:50 | Aries rising |
| 08:50 to 09:55 | Taurus rising |
| 09:55 to 11:40 | Gemini rising |
| 11:40 to 14:10 | Cancer rising |
| 14:10 to 17:05 | Leo rising |
| 17:05 to 20:00 | Virgo rising |
| 20:00 to 23:00 | Libra rising |
| 23:00 to 24:00 | Scorpio rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 21 February 1907, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 1° Pisces 43' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Gemini |
| Mercury | 16° Pisces 25' |
| Venus | 15° Capricorn 20' |
| Mars | 9° Sagittarius 15' |
| Jupiter | 1° Cancer 01'℞ |
| Saturn | 15° Pisces 43' |
| Uranus | 11° Capricorn 26' |
| Neptune | 10° Cancer 04'℞ |
| Pluto | 21° Gemini 46'℞ |
| North Node | 2° Leo 08' |
| South Node | 2° Aquarius 08' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
W. H. Auden’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about W. H. Auden’s private life.
Sun in Pisces
1° Pisces 43' at midday
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and W. H. Auden's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
Moon in Gemini
Gemini, all day
needs and habits
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and W. H. Auden is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Mercury in Pisces
16° Pisces 25' at midday
mind and voice
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and W. H. Auden is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
Venus in Capricorn
15° Capricorn 20' at midday
love and values
For W. H. Auden, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Mars in Sagittarius
9° Sagittarius 15' at midday
drive and anger
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. W. H. Auden may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Jupiter in Cancer
1° Cancer 01' at midday ℞
growth and excess
For W. H. Auden, Jupiter in Cancer means growing by nurturing others and building a home that people want to return to. The excess can be protecting loved ones past the point they need it. Generosity here takes the form of home-cooked meals, open doors and an instinct to take in anyone who needs somewhere to land.
Saturn in Pisces
15° Pisces 43' at midday
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For W. H. Auden, the doubt is likely to take the form of guilt for protecting their own time and energy. What this Saturn works towards is a quiet, mature compassion, once it is clear that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
Uranus in Capricorn
11° Capricorn 26' at midday
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of W. H. Auden's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Neptune in Cancer
10° Cancer 04' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by W. H. Auden and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
21° Gemini 46' at midday ℞
power, generational
W. H. Auden shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in W. H. Auden’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Venus sextile Saturn
about 0.4° at midday
This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to W. H. Auden's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once W. H. Auden decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.
Sun trine Jupiter
about 0.7° at midday
With the Sun trine Jupiter, W. H. Auden's sense of self and instinct for growth support each other, which gives them a warm, expansive confidence. They are likely to be quick to see an opening and to make the most of it without forcing anything.
Mercury conjunction Saturn
about 0.7° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Saturn, W. H. Auden's thinking is likely to be careful and structured, and they tend to say only what they are sure of. That makes their word worth taking, and the risk is that caution keeps an idea back until it feels perfectly finished.
Mercury sextile Venus
about 1.1° at midday
Thinking and affection are easy companions in W. H. Auden's chart, which gives them a natural charm in how they communicate. With Mercury sextile Venus, expressing appreciation and finding the right words go together, especially in moments when they want someone to feel noticed.
Venus conjunction Uranus
about 3.9° at midday
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and W. H. Auden is likely to be drawn to people and situations that keep them interested more than settled. There is romantic excitement in that. The difficulty is letting closeness deepen without the urge to bolt from it.
Saturn sextile Uranus
about 4.3° at midday
Discipline and independence combine in this sextile to give W. H. Auden a workable way of keeping a routine while leaving room to change it. The flexibility is quiet and sustainable, and it keeps a good habit from calcifying into an unquestioned rule.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus opposition Neptuneabout 1.4°
- Venus opposition Neptuneabout 5.3°
- Mercury square Plutoabout 5.4°
- Saturn trine Neptuneabout 5.7°
- Saturn square Plutoabout 6.1°
- Mars square Saturnabout 6.5°
- Sun square Marsabout 7.5°
Pisces Sun and Gemini Moon, like W. H. Auden
Also born on 21 February
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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