Brad W. Foster
Brad W. Foster (born April 26, 1955, San Antonio, United States), aged 71, is an American artist. Foster's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist and Rotsler Memorial Fanzine Artist Award.
Brad W. Foster’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
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Brad W. Foster’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Brad in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~83,293
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
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What the chart says
Brad, according to the stars
Core essence
Brad 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 Brad 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.
How Brad wants to be loved
Brad 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 Brad creates
How Brad makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Brad creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Brad is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Brad 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Brad scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Brad's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Brad W. Foster in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Brad W. Foster's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1955, 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.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Brad W. Foster was born on April 26, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Brad W. Foster's birth date, April 26, 1955, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Brad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brad W. Foster's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brad W. Foster combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Brad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brad W. Foster, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Brad’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Brad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
Brad’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.7° orb
Brad’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.5° to 3.7° orb
Brad’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Brad’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
Brad’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.5° orb
Brad’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.2° to 12.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Brad’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°22′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Brad making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°43′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Brad caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 25°49′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Brad is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 10°00′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Brad is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Brad leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron square Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.6°
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.5°
- Eros square Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.9°
- Ceres square Neptune 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°).
Brad’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter, Uranus
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Brad 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 Brad’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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brad W. Foster, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Brad’s cards
Every card is computed from April 26, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brad W. Foster, 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
Brad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4954336, 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 Syndi Guyton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brad W. Foster at Wikipedia.
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 Brad W. Foster.
Quick answers about Brad W. Foster’s chart
- How old is Brad W. Foster?
- Brad W. Foster is 71 years old, born April 26, 1955 in San Antonio, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brad W. Foster?
- Brad W. Foster is a Taurus: born April 26, 1955, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Brad W. Foster's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1955 birth.
- What time was Brad W. Foster 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 is Brad W. Foster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 26, 1955 birth date.
- What is Brad W. Foster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 26, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Brad W. Foster's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brad W. Foster's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
