Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers (born March 20, 1928, Latrobe, United States, 08:20; died 2003), was an American television personality. Notable films include Casper, Poltergeist and Won't You Be My Neighbor?. Rogers's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Daytime Emmy Award and Peabody Awards.
Fred Rogers’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Fred
Fred Rogers’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Fred in the U.S.?
#1936
US rank in 2025
~345,684
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1928, Fred came 36th among boys and 929th among girls, carried by 6,036 American boys and 64 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Fred apart
Fred Rogers took the Peabody Awards in 1992, at 64.
The classrooms behind this chart: Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School.
The working life starts in 1951, at 23.
The grave is at Unity Cemetery.
Fred Rogers was born to Nancy Flagg and married Joanne Rogers.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Fred Rogers: Christianity in Pittsburgh, Deaths from stomach cancer in Pennsylvania and American puppeteers.
Chester Bennington (1976) and Barron Trump (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School and Greater Latrobe Senior High School
- Instruments
- piano and voice
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002) and Peabody Awards (1992)
- Working from
- 1951
- Buried at
- Unity Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Fred, according to the stars
Core essence
Fred feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Fred is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Fred 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 Fred 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 Fred wants to be loved
Fred 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 Fred, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Fred creates
How Fred makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Fred creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Fred is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Fred 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Fred goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Fred's birth date. Working below.
Where Fred sits
Six lines
Fred’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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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Dedicate a star to Fred Rogers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Latrobe on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Latrobe at 08:20, Fred Rogers’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Latrobe that night
Computed for 40.31°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Latrobe was Sadr, in Cygnus, 85.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -21° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Latrobe, United States
The death is recorded at Pittsburgh, Allegheny County in 2003.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Fred's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Breaker 破軍 in 亥
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Pisces · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →Fred Rogers in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Fred Rogers's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What Pisces means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Fred Rogers was born on March 20, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Fred Rogers's birth date, March 20, 1928, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Fred’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Fred Rogers' timed chart: Mars in the 10th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Rogers' timed chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Fred Rogers combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Fred’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 0.9° orb
Fred’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 2.6° orb
Fred’s growth grinds against their depths.
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
Fred’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
MoontrinePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 3.5° orb
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 3.8° orb
MercuryoppositionNeptuneseparating · 5.1° orb
VenusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 6.0° orb
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Fred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 3°29′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 21°46′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 4°60′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°20′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 12°28′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Moon 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 3.0°
Fred’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Fred’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Moon, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Moon semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 2.0°
Fred’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 11 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 11 | Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 11 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 11 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 11 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 12 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 12 | Mars | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 4 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 10 | Jupiter, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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More charts like Fred’s
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on March 20
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- Liz LochheadScottish poet and essayist (born 1947)
- Joy HarjoAmerican Poet Laureate
- Simon ArmitageBritish poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
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Fred’s cards
Computed from March 20, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1275768 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Walt Seng; Distributed by PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Rogers at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Fred Rogers.
Quick answers about Fred Rogers’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fred Rogers?
- Fred Rogers was a Pisces: born March 20, 1928, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
- What was Fred Rogers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 20, 1928 birth.
- What time was Fred Rogers born?
- 08:20 local time in Latrobe, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Fred Rogers's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 08:20 birth time in Latrobe, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Fred Rogers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Fred Rogers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Fred Rogers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 12°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Fred Rogers's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
