Birth Chart

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken

Sun Leo

Moon Sagittarius

Ascendant Aquarius

Influences in signs

↣ Sun in Leo - 13°39' - in house 7

↣ Moon in Sagittarius - 02°11' - in house 10

↣ Mercury in Leo - 11°36' - in house 7

↣ Venus in Gemini - 29°56' - in house 5/6

↣ Mars in Cancer - 29°14' - in house 7

↣ Jupiter in Sagittarius - 29°01' - in house 11/12 - retrograde

↣ Saturn in Leo - 22°29' - in house 7

↣ Uranus in Libra - 18°37' - in house 9

↣ Neptune in Gemini - 04°17' - in house 4

↣ Pluto in Gemini - 06°46' - in house 4/5

↣ North Node in Cancer - 11°44' - in house 6

↣ Ascendant in Aquarius - 00°41' - in house 1

↣ Midheaven in Scorpio - 18°34' - in house 10

↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Aquarius - 13°38'

Influences in houses

↣ Sun in house 7

↣ Moon in house 10

↣ Mercury in house 7

↣ Venus in house 5/6

↣ Mars in house 7

↣ Jupiter in house 11/12

↣ Saturn in house 7

↣ Uranus in house 9

↣ Neptune in house 4

↣ Pluto in house 4/5

↣ North Node in house 6

↣ Ascendant in house 1

↣ Midheaven in house 10

Aspects

↣ Sun and Moon antiparallel

↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (2°03' applying)

↣ Sun and Saturn conjunction (8°50' applying)

↣ Sun and Uranus sextile (4°57' applying)

↣ Sun and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (0°01' applying)

↣ Sun and Midheaven square (4°55' separating) antiparallel

↣ Moon and Mars trine (2°57' separating)

↣ Moon and Neptune opposition (2°06' applying)

↣ Moon and Pluto opposition (4°34' applying)

↣ Moon and Ascendant sextile (1°30' applying)

↣ Moon and Midheaven parallel

↣ Mercury and Neptune parallel

↣ Mercury and Pluto sextile (4°50' separating)

↣ Mercury and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (2°02' separating)

↣ Mercury and Ascendant opposition (10°55' applying)

↣ Venus and Mars parallel

↣ Venus and Jupiter opposition (0°55' separating)

↣ Mars and Neptune sextile (5°03' applying)

↣ Mars and Ascendant opposition (1°27' separating)

↣ Jupiter and North Node antiparallel

↣ Saturn and Uranus sextile (3°52' separating)

↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (8°51' applying)

↣ Saturn and Midheaven square (3°55' applying)

↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant trine (4°59' applying)

↣ Neptune and Pluto conjunction (2°28' applying)

↣ Neptune and Ascendant trine (3°36' applying) antiparallel

↣ Pluto and Ascendant trine (6°05' applying)

Birth data

Original name: Conrad Potter Aiken
Chart date: 05/08/1889
Chart time: 18:30
Date and time quality: AA Birth record cited what does this mean?
Data origin: Astro-Databank
Location: Savannah (GA), USA
Latitude and longitude: 32°05' North · 81°06' West
Time zone: 05:00 West

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About

Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet whose work encompassed poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, drama, and autobiography. Known for his exploration of psychological themes and the influence of symbolism, Aiken received major honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1930) and the National Book Award, and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His output includes notable collections such as Earth Triumphant (1914), The Charnel Rose (1918), and And In the Hanging Gardens (1933), and the widely anthologized short story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow.”

Personal experience and his study of theorists such as Freud and Jung deeply shaped his work, giving his poems and narratives strong psychological depth. A Harvard graduate, he associated and collaborated with figures like T. S. Eliot and drew on diverse influences ranging from symbolism to the expansive tradition of Walt Whitman. Over his life he wrote or edited more than fifty books and acted as a mentor to contemporary authors such as Malcolm Lowry.

He lived in both the United States and England and, despite extended periods abroad, professed a strong identification with the New England literary tradition. His legacy endures in American modern poetry, both for its formal quality and for its engagement with psychology and the symbolic tradition.

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