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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Goat, with 
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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 1880
2025
its peak year
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Frederik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Frederik sits
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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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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Frederik Pohl, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Capricorn 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.
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
Frederik’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Frederik’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.9° to 5.6° orb
Frederik’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
Frederik’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.4° to 6.1° orb
Frederik’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.5° orb
Frederik’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Aries 2°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Frederik may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 21°44′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Frederik is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 10°15′ (moves 0.51° 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. Frederik is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Frederik needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Frederik leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.3°
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°).
Frederik’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Frederik is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Frederik’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Frederik Pohl, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Frederik’s family here
One relative of Frederik Pohl also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Frederik’s cards
Every card is computed from November 26, 1919, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Frederik Pohl, 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
Frederik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312641, 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 AllyUnion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frederik Pohl at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
- 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 time was Frederik Pohl 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 was Frederik Pohl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 26, 1919 birth date.
- What was Frederik Pohl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 26, 1919 birth date.
- 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.
