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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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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.?

#4267

US rank in 2025

~83,293

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

In 1955, 1,877 American boys and 5 girls were registered Brad — 153rd among boys and 5,911th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brad’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on B (2) and closes on D (4).

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

Brad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Brad apart

Melania Trump (1970) and Arno Allan Penzias (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Brad sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Brad

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brad

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Brad

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brad

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Brad

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brad

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Brad W. Foster

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

Brad’s birth-night reference starAlgiebawarm orange · LeoAlgieba, in Leo. A warm orange star, 77.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algieba →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 28.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over San Antonio that night

Computed for 29.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Antonio was Algieba, in Leo, 77.8° up.

Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

San Antonio sits at 29.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −60.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from San Antonio on any night.

Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon up and 27% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Brad's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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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Brad W. Foster in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Try 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.

What Taurus means →

Wood Goat

Makes 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.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Can'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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Brad’s chart

Brad’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Venus · Square, 1° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.5° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.2° orbSun in Taurus · 5°41′☉5°Moon in Cancer · 3°31′☽3°Mercury in Taurus · 9°47′☿9°Venus in Aries · 2°29′♀2°Mars in Gemini · 10°36′♂10°Jupiter in Cancer · 22°24′♃22°Saturn in Scorpio · 18°49′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Cancer · 23°53′♅23°Neptune in Libra · 26°38′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Leo · 24°19′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

  • 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

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.5° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 5°22′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°43′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 25°49′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 10°00′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Brad’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune

  2. 2. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter, Uranus

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Brad’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.

  • 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°

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Brad’s cards

Computed from April 26, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4954336 (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 Syndi Guyton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Brad W. Foster at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Brad W. Foster's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Brad W. Foster's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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