Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber (born December 24, 1910, Chicago, United States; died 1992), was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Leiber is best remembered for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Leiber's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Fritz Leiber’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.How compatible are you with Fritz Leiber?
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Fritz Leiber’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Fritz in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~6,683
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Fritz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Fritz, according to the stars
Core essence
Fritz is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Fritz is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Fritz cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Fritz needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Fritz wants to be loved
Fritz wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Fritz you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Fritz creates
How Fritz makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Fritz creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Fritz is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Fritz is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Fritz has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Fritz's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Fritz Leiber's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Fritz Leiber was born on December 24, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Fritz Leiber's birth date, December 24, 1910, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Fritz’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fritz Leiber's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Fritz Leiber combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Fritz’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Fritz Leiber, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Libra 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.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Fritz’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.8° orb
Fritz’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.6° to 2.5° orb
Fritz’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
Fritz’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.9° orb
Fritz’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° orb
Fritz’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.8° orb
Fritz’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.8° orb
Fritz’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Fritz’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.2° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Fritz’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Fritz making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAries 10°60′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Fritz looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 7°22′ (moves 0.58° 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. Fritz is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 24°52′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Fritz carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°05′ (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 Fritz 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 sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.9°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 3.0°
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°).
Fritz’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. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Fritz is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Fritz’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.
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, UranusThree 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 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Fritz Leiber, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Fritz’s cards
Every card is computed from December 24, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Fritz Leiber, 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
Fritz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313185, 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.
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The same Fritz Leiber at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Fritz Leiber’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fritz Leiber?
- Fritz Leiber was a Capricorn: born December 24, 1910, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was Fritz Leiber's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1910 birth.
- What time was Fritz Leiber 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 Fritz Leiber's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1910 birth date.
- What was Fritz Leiber's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1910 birth date.
- Where was Fritz Leiber's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Fritz Leiber's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
