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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander (born January 21, 1956, Mojave Desert, United States), aged 70, is a Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956). Gander's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Forrest Gander’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Forrest Gander’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Forrest in the U.S.?

#374

US rank in 2025

~54,697

Americans share it since 1880

1994

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Forrest’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Forrest, according to the stars

Core essence

Forrest is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Forrest is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Forrest is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Forrest needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Forrest wants to be loved

Forrest wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Forrest, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Forrest creates

How Forrest 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. Forrest 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: Forrest 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 7 is the seeker. Forrest 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Forrest has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Forrest's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Forrest sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Forrest

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Forrest

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

PrivateExpressive
Forrest

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Forrest

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

PracticalVisionary
Forrest

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Forrest

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 Forrest Gander

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

Forrest’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 85.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 75.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Forrest Gander's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 21, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Forrest Gander was born on January 21, 1956, 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 7

Thinks more than it says.

Forrest Gander's birth date, January 21, 1956, 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 Forrest’s chart

Forrest’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Forrest Gander, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.3° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.5° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.1° orbSun in Aquarius · 0°44′☉0°Moon in Taurus · 11°15′☽11°Mercury in Aquarius · 12°30′ · retrograde☿℞12°Venus in Pisces · 5°08′♀5°Mars in Sagittarius · 5°02′♂5°Jupiter in Leo · 29°38′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Sagittarius · 0°45′♄0°Uranus in Leo · 0°16′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Scorpio · 0°23′♆0°Pluto in Leo · 28°00′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Forrest’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Forrest’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Forrest’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Forrest’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.1° orb

    Forrest’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Forrest’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb

    Forrest’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb

    Forrest’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Forrest’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb

    Forrest’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

    Forrest’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.8° to 5.0° orb

    Forrest’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Forrest’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°31′ (moves 0.08° 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 Forrest making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 18°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Forrest is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 12°54′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Forrest attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 27°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Forrest is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Forrest is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.6°

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°).

Forrest’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. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Forrest is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Forrest’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, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, 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.

  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
  • Venus biquintile Uranus 1.1°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Forrest Gander, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Forrest

Geena Davis was born on January 21, 1956 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Forrest’s cards

Every card is computed from January 21, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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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

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Forrest Gander, 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

Forrest’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5470470, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Forrest Gander at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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 Forrest Gander.

Quick answers about Forrest Gander’s chart

How old is Forrest Gander?
Forrest Gander is 70 years old, born January 21, 1956 in Mojave Desert, United States.
What zodiac sign is Forrest Gander?
Forrest Gander is an Aquarius: born January 21, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
What is Forrest Gander's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 21, 1956 birth.
What time was Forrest Gander 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 Forrest Gander's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 21, 1956 birth date.
What is Forrest Gander's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 21, 1956 birth date.
Where is Forrest Gander's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Forrest Gander's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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