Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga (born August 14, 1965, Bozeman, United States), aged 61, is a Television producer. Braga's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Brannon Braga’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Brannon
Brannon Braga’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 Brannon in the U.S.?
#6508
US rank in 2025
~4,823
Americans share it since 1934
1998
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1965, Brannon came 1,811th, carried by 19 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brannon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Brannon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Brannon apart
Brannon Braga took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1995, at 30.
Canton McKinley High School and University of California, Santa Cruz shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Brannon Braga: Writers from Canton, Ohio, Screenwriters from Montana and Kent State University alumni.
The same date carries Lyudmila Kogan. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Canton McKinley High School, University of California, Santa Cruz and Kent State University at Stark
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1995)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
What the chart says
Brannon, according to the stars
Core essence
Brannon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Brannon 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, Brannon is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Brannon needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Brannon wants to be loved
Brannon 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 Brannon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Brannon creates
How Brannon makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Brannon creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Brannon is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Brannon 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Brannon fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Brannon's birth date. Working below.
Where Brannon sits
Six lines
Brannon’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Brannon Braga
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bozeman 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 Bozeman that night
Computed for 45.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Bozeman at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
At 45.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bozeman at all: they sit past the −44.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
How unusual Brannon's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Jupiter
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 →Brannon Braga at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Brannon Braga's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Brannon Braga was born on August 14, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Brannon Braga's birth date, August 14, 1965, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Brannon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brannon Braga's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brannon Braga 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.
Brannon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Pisces 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.2° to 1.2° orb
Brannon’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Brannon’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb
Brannon’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.0° to 2.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.2° to 1.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.1° to 3.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Brannon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 1°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 22°26′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°24′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Eros opposition Venus 1.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.7°
Brannon’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Brannon’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
Born the same day as Brannon
Lyudmila Kogan was born on August 14, 1965 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Bozeman, at 45.7°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Snake years
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Other Gilded Lightkeepers
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Brannon’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brannon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q540510 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brannon Braga at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brannon Braga.
Quick answers about Brannon Braga’s chart
- How old is Brannon Braga?
- Brannon Braga is 61 years old, born August 14, 1965 in Bozeman, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brannon Braga?
- Brannon Braga is a Leo: born August 14, 1965, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Brannon Braga's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1965 birth.
- What is Brannon Braga's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Brannon Braga's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Brannon Braga's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brannon Braga's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
