Brandon Som
Brandon Som (born August 13, 1975, Phoenix, United States), aged 51, is an American poet. Som's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, fellowship award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Brandon Som’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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Brandon Som’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Brandon in the U.S.?
#261
US rank in 2025
~774,654
Americans share it since 1880
1992
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brandon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Brandon, according to the stars
Core essence
Brandon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Brandon 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Brandon feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Brandon needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Brandon wants to be loved
Brandon 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 Brandon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Brandon creates
How Brandon makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Brandon creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Brandon is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Brandon is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Brandon 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 Brandon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brandon sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Brandon Som at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Brandon Som's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 13, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Brandon Som was born on August 13, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Brandon Som's birth date, August 13, 1975, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Brandon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brandon Som's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Brandon Som combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Brandon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brandon Som, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Scorpio 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.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.4° to 1.7° orb
Brandon’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb
Brandon’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Brandon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb
Brandon’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 4.1° orb
Brandon’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.9° to 4.7° orb
Brandon’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.9° to 3.4° orb
Brandon’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
Brandon’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
Brandon’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.0° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Brandon’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°06′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Brandon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 5°51′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Brandon feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio 8°47′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Brandon is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°06′ (moves 0.26° 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 Brandon needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Brandon is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.4°
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°).
Brandon’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. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Brandon is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Brandon’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brandon Som, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Brandon’s cards
Every card is computed from August 13, 1975, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brandon Som, 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
Brandon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q117222900, 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 National Book Foundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brandon Som 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 Brandon Som.
Quick answers about Brandon Som’s chart
- How old is Brandon Som?
- Brandon Som is 51 years old, born August 13, 1975 in Phoenix, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brandon Som?
- Brandon Som is a Leo: born August 13, 1975, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit.
- What is Brandon Som's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 13, 1975 birth.
- What time was Brandon Som 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 Brandon Som's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 13, 1975 birth date.
- What is Brandon Som's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 13, 1975 birth date.
- Where is Brandon Som's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brandon Som's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
