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Gary K. Wolf

Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941, Earlville, United States), aged 85, is an American author. Wolf is best known for Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. Wolf's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Gary K. Wolf’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Gary K. Wolf’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Gary in the U.S.?

#1073

US rank in 2025

~905,438

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1941, Gary came 19th among boys and 1,036th among girls, carried by 14,568 American boys and 50 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gary’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 G (7) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 7: care against analysis.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Gary apart

What keeps Gary K. Wolf in print: Who Censored Roger Rabbit?.

Training came by way of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The same date carries Neil Diamond and Dan Shechtman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Educated at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1989)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
11

What the chart says

Gary, according to the stars

Core essence

Gary is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Gary 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.

How Gary wants to be loved

Gary 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 Gary you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Gary creates

How Gary makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Gary 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: Gary is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Gary is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Gary 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 Gary's birth date. Working below.

Where Gary sits

Six lines

Gary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gary

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gary

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Gary

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gary

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gary

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gary

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Gary K. Wolf

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Earlville on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Gary’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 42.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Earlville that night

Computed for 41.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Earlville at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 4.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Earlville on any night.

The Moon, 7% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.

How unusual Gary's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 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.

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Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Gary K. Wolf's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Gary K. Wolf was born on January 24, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Gary K. Wolf's birth date, January 24, 1941, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Gary’s chart

Gary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.3° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.5° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.7° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 4°23′☉4°Moon in Capricorn · 0°34′☽0°Mercury in Aquarius · 13°23′☿13°Venus in Capricorn · 13°33′♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 13°28′♂13°Jupiter in Taurus · 6°43′♃6°Saturn in Taurus · 8°07′♄8°Uranus in Taurus · 22°10′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°31′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 3°10′ · retrograde♇℞3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Gary’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.7° to 1.7° orb

    Gary’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.4° orb

    Gary’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.9° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.4° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.8° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Gary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 27°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°25′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 2°44′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 3°19′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 3.0°

Gary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Gary’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°

Born the same day as Gary

2 other people here were born on January 24, 1941, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Earlville, at 41.6°N, nothing below −48.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Gary’s cards

Computed from January 24, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1079574 (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 Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gary K. Wolf at Wikipedia, garywolf.com and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gary K. Wolf.

Quick answers about Gary K. Wolf’s chart

How old is Gary K. Wolf?
Gary K. Wolf is 85 years old, born January 24, 1941 in Earlville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Gary K. Wolf?
Gary K. Wolf is an Aquarius: born January 24, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Gary K. Wolf's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1941 birth.
What is Gary K. Wolf's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Gary K. Wolf's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Gary K. Wolf's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gary K. Wolf's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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