Fred Wah
Fred Wah (born January 23, 1939, Saskatchewan, Canada), aged 87, is a Canadian poet (born 1939). Wah has served as full professor and Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Wah's honours include Officer of the Order of Canada, Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and New Media Writing Prize.
Fred Wah’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Fred Wah’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Fred, according to the stars
Core essence
Fred is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Fred 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, 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 by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Fred and watch them fall for you again.
How Fred creates
How Fred makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Fred 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: Fred is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Fred is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Fred leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Fred runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Fred's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Fred sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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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
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Fred Wah's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1939, 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.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Fred Wah was born on January 23, 1939, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Fred Wah's birth date, January 23, 1939, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Fred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Wah's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Fred Wah combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Fred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Fred Wah, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.6° to 3.1° orb
Fred’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.1° orb
Fred’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.9° to 4.3° orb
Fred’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
Fred’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb
Fred’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto3.4° to 4.1° orb
Fred’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.7° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.9° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 5.8° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineNeptuneorb from 6.2° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Fred’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 ℞Cancer 5°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Fred is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°26′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Fred is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 10°28′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Fred is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 17°44′ (moves 0.38° 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. Fred is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Fred at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.6°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
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°).
Fred’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. ♅ Uranus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Fred 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 Fred’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Fred Wah, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Fred’s cards
Every card is computed from January 23, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Fred Wah, 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
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1031167, 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.
The same Fred Wah 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 Fred Wah.
Quick answers about Fred Wah’s chart
- How old is Fred Wah?
- Fred Wah is 87 years old, born January 23, 1939 in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Fred Wah?
- Fred Wah is an Aquarius: born January 23, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Fred Wah's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1939 birth.
- What time was Fred Wah 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 Fred Wah's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 23, 1939 birth date.
- What is Fred Wah's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 23, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Fred Wah's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Fred Wah's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
