Gardner Minshew
Gardner Minshew (born May 16, 1996, Flowood, United States), aged 30, is an American football player (born 1996). Minshew has played for Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars. Minshew's honours include Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
Gardner Minshew’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Gardner
Gardner Minshew’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Gardner in the U.S.?
#5094
US rank in 2025
~3,026
Americans share it since 1880
1915
its peak year
Gardner ranked 6,706th in 1996, the year of this birth, with 8 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gardner’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on G (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gardner’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Gardner apart
Gardner Minshew took the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award in 2018, at 22.
Brandon High School and Northwest Mississippi Community College shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Gardner Minshew under People from Flowood, Mississippi, Sportspeople from Brandon, Mississippi and East Carolina Pirates football players.
The same date carries Charvarius Ward. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Brandon High School, Northwest Mississippi Community College and Washington State University
- Awards
- Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award (2018)
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Gardner, according to the stars
Core essence
Gardner is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Gardner is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Gardner is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Gardner needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Gardner wants to be loved
Gardner wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Gardner like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Gardner creates
How Gardner makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Gardner 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: Gardner is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Gardner 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 Gardner leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Gardner is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Gardner's birth date. Working below.
Where Gardner sits
Six lines
Gardner’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Gardner Minshew
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Flowood 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 Flowood that night
Computed for 32.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Zosma stood nearest the zenith over Flowood at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Leo.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 95 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 32.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Flowood at all: they sit past the −57.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
How unusual Gardner's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde · No Water planets
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Gardner Minshew's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Gardner Minshew was born on May 16, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Gardner Minshew's birth date, May 16, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Gardner’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gardner Minshew's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gardner Minshew combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Gardner’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Taurus 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
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.9° orb
Gardner’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Gardner’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Gardner’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.8° to 6.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Gardner’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 8°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 11°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 6°20′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 8°14′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.3°
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
Gardner’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gardner’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
Born the same day as Gardner
Charvarius Ward was born on May 16, 1996 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Flowood sits at 32.3°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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- Cristiano RonaldoPortuguese association football player
Also born on May 16
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- Janet Jackson1966
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Patrick WimmerAustrian association football player
- Nathanaël MbukuCongolese international footballer who plays as a striker for Dinamo Zagreb
- Nick WoltemadeGerman association football player (born 2002)
Other Taurus Rat charts
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- Antony HewishEnglish physicist and radio astronomer
- Narges MohammadiIranian human rights activist (born 1972)
- Henry DunantSwiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross
Other Tidal Scholars
- Nassef SawirisEgyptian billionaire businessman
- Leonid RadvinskyUkrainian-American businessman
- Ernest RutherfordNew Zealand physicist
- Arthur C. ClarkeBritish science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Shuji NakamuraJapanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- James P. AllisonAmerican immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
- Aziz SancarTurkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
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Gardner’s cards
Computed from May 16, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gardner’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57339590 (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 Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gardner Minshew at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gardner Minshew.
Quick answers about Gardner Minshew’s chart
- How old is Gardner Minshew?
- Gardner Minshew is 30 years old, born May 16, 1996 in Flowood, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gardner Minshew?
- Gardner Minshew is a Taurus: born May 16, 1996, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Gardner Minshew's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1996 birth.
- How tall is Gardner Minshew?
- Gardner Minshew is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Gardner Minshew's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gardner Minshew's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gardner Minshew's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gardner Minshew's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
