Barry B. Longyear
Barry B. Longyear (born May 12, 1942, Harrisburg, United States; died 2025), was an American writer. Longyear is best remembered for Enemy Mine. Longyear's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Astounding Award for Best New Writer and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Barry B. Longyear’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Barry
Barry B. Longyear’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Barry in the U.S.?
#1520
US rank in 2025
~182,036
Americans share it since 1883
1962
its peak year
The SSA recorded 3,209 American boys and 14 girls named Barry in 1942: 79th among boys and 2,422nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Barry apart
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Barry, according to the stars
Core essence
Barry 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 Barry 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Barry runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Barry needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Barry wants to be loved
Barry 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 Barry creates
How Barry makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Barry creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Barry is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Barry is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Barry does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Barry's birth date. Working below.
Where Barry sits
Six lines
Barry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Barry B. Longyear
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harrisburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Harrisburg that night
Computed for 40.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Harrisburg at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Harrisburg sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Harrisburg on any night.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Barry B. Longyear's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Barry B. Longyear was born on May 12, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Barry B. Longyear's birth date, May 12, 1942, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry B. Longyear's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Barry B. Longyear combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
Barry’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Barry’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 3.1° orb
Barry’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenustrinePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 5.0° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 9°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 19°55′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°22′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 18°51′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°
Barry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Barry’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 quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
More people like Barry
Other screenwriters
- Richard Dawkins1941
- David Giler1943
- Jacques Perrin1941
- Malcolm McDowell1943
- Walter Hill1942
- Joe Haldeman1943
Born in United States
- Samuel R. DelanyAmerican author and literary critic (born 1942)
- Joe MayhewAmerican fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian
- Marsha MasonAmerican actress (born 1942)
- Betsey JohnsonAmerican fashion designer
- Sandra DeeAmerican actress and model
- Jack MilesAmerican writer
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on May 12
- Rishi Sunak1980
- Dorothy Hodgkin1910
- George Carlin1937
- Rami Malek1981
- Marcelo Vieira1988
- Jonah Lomu1975
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- Natalie DormerEnglish actress
- Alexis DenisofAmerican actor
- Clive DavisAmerican music executive
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- Amber PortwoodAmerican reality television personality
- Darius RuckerAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Evergreen Guardians
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- Louis RenaultFrench jurist
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Famous people with Life Path 6
- Malcolm RoachAmerican football player (born 1998)
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Barry’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q809012 (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 Barry Longyear, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barry B. Longyear at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry B. Longyear.
Quick answers about Barry B. Longyear’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barry B. Longyear?
- Barry B. Longyear was a Taurus: born May 12, 1942, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1942 birth.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barry B. Longyear's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
