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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Fred
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
Of the names registered in 1939, Fred came 40th among boys and 1,606th among girls, carried by 5,538 American boys and 23 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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 record
What sets Fred apart
Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Fred sits
Six lines
Fred’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Fred Wah
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saskatchewan 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 Saskatchewan that night
Computed for 55.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Saskatchewan at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 55.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −35.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 12% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
How unusual Fred's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° 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
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
stableVenustrineSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.4° to 4.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 5°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°26′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°28′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 17°44′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Fred’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Fred’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 0.0°
- 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°
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- Donald L. Coburn1938
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Born in Canada
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- Margaret Atwood
- Jim PeeblesCanadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
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- Grigori RasputinRussian mystic
- John HancockAmerican Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution
- Richard BlumenthalUnited States Senator from Connecticut since 2011
Born in Tiger years
- Christian BaleAmerican-English actor
- Claudia SheinbaumPresident of Mexico since 2024
- Stevie WonderAmerican and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
Also born on January 23
- Hideki Yukawa1907
- Doutzen Kroes1985
- Mariska Hargitay1964
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- Jenna DewanAmerican actress, dancer and model (born 1980)
- Meryl DavisAmerican ice dancer
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Scholars
- Ringo StarrBritish musician, drummer for the Beatles
- Daniel Day-LewisBritish actor
- Samuel L. JacksonAmerican actor
- Han KangSouth Korean writer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Brett CullenAmerican actor (born 1956)
- Phyllis SmithAmerican actress
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Fred’s cards
Computed from January 23, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1031167 (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.
The same Fred Wah at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Fred Wah's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Fred Wah's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
