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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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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 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barry sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Barry B. Longyear, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Barry’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.1° to 3.3° orb
Barry’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Barry’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb
Barry’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Barry’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus4.7° to 5.0° orb
Barry’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb
Barry’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLeo 9°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Barry performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 19°55′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Barry is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°22′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Barry is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 18°51′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Barry needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Barry that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Sun 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Barry’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Barry is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Barry’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barry B. Longyear, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Barry’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
Tap to flip
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
No birth time is on public record for Barry B. Longyear, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q809012, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- 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 time was Barry B. Longyear born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1942 birth date.
- What was Barry B. Longyear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1942 birth date.
- 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.
