Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl (born November 26, 1919, New York City, United States; died 2013), was an American science fiction writer and editor. Pohl is best remembered for Gateway and The Space Merchants. Pohl's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Frederik Pohl’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Frederik
Frederik Pohl’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Frederik in the U.S.?
#3787
US rank in 2025
~632
Americans share it since 1920
2025
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Frederik falls under that line for 1919. Its peak came in 2025, and 632 Americans have carried it since 1920.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frederik’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frederik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Frederik apart
Tina Turner (1939) and Elizabeth Blackburn (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Frederik, according to the stars
Core essence
Frederik is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Frederik is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Frederik is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Frederik needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Frederik wants to be loved
Frederik wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Frederik gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Frederik creates
How Frederik makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Frederik creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Frederik 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Frederik is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Frederik channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Frederik's birth date. Working below.
Where Frederik sits
Six lines
Frederik’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 17% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Frederik's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Frederik Pohl's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 26, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Frederik Pohl was born on November 26, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Frederik Pohl's birth date, November 26, 1919, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Frederik’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frederik Pohl's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Frederik Pohl combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Frederik’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Frederik’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.3° orb
Frederik’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.8° to 1.8° orb
Frederik’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.5° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.5° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 4.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.6° to 16.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Frederik’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 21°44′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°15′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.3°
Frederik’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Frederik’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.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Frederik’s family here
One relative of Frederik Pohl also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Frederik’s cards
Computed from November 26, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frederik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312641 (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 AllyUnion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frederik Pohl at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frederik Pohl.
Quick answers about Frederik Pohl’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frederik Pohl?
- Frederik Pohl was a Sagittarius: born November 26, 1919, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Frederik Pohl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 26, 1919 birth.
- What was Frederik Pohl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frederik Pohl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frederik Pohl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frederik Pohl's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
