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Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher (born August 21, 1911, Oakland, United States; died 1968), was an American author, critic, and editor. Boucher's honours include Edgar Awards and Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine.

Anthony Boucher’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Anthony Boucher’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#46

US rank in 2025

~1,495,156

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1911, Anthony came 35th among boys and 1,967th among girls, carried by 1,288 American boys and 7 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anthony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Anthony apart

Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Anthony, according to the stars

Core essence

Anthony is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Anthony is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Anthony wants to be loved

Anthony 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 Anthony and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Anthony creates

How Anthony makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Anthony creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Anthony 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anthony is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Anthony is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.

Where Anthony sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Anthony

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anthony

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Anthony

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anthony

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Anthony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anthony

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Anthony Boucher

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

Anthony’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 87° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 17.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Oakland that night

Computed for 37.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Oakland at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.0° above the horizon in Lyra.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oakland at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.

How unusual Anthony's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Anthony Boucher's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Anthony Boucher was born on August 21, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Anthony Boucher's birth date, August 21, 1911, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Anthony’s chart

Anthony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Leo · 27°37′☉27°Moon in Cancer · 25°47′☽25°Mercury in Virgo · 22°56′☿22°Venus in Virgo · 29°15′♀29°Mars in Taurus · 22°38′♂22°Jupiter in Scorpio · 8°09′♃8°Saturn in Taurus · 20°06′♄20°Uranus in Capricorn · 26°11′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Cancer · 22°38′♆22°Pluto in Gemini · 28°44′♇28°

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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Anthony’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.8° orb

    Anthony’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.1° to 0.5° orb

    Anthony’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.2° to 0.3° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.6° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.6° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.3° to 3.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 4°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 8°37′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 7°42′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°18′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.2°
  • Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°

Anthony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Anthony’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mercury, Mars, Uranus, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°

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Anthony’s cards

Computed from August 21, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q246303 (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 John R. Leppanen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anthony Boucher at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anthony Boucher.

Quick answers about Anthony Boucher’s chart

What zodiac sign was Anthony Boucher?
Anthony Boucher was a Leo: born August 21, 1911, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Anthony Boucher's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1911 birth.
What was Anthony Boucher's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Anthony Boucher's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Anthony Boucher's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Anthony Boucher's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 6 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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