Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco, United States), aged 96, is an American poet (born 1930). Snyder is best known for Turtle Island. Snyder's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and American Book Awards.
Gary Snyder’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Gary Snyder’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gary, according to the stars
Core essence
Gary 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 Gary 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.
How Gary wants to be loved
Gary 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 Gary like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Gary creates
How Gary makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Gary creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Gary is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Gary is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Gary gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Gary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gary sits
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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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gary Snyder at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Gary Snyder's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Gary Snyder's birth date, May 8, 1930, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Gary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gary Snyder's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gary Snyder combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Gary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gary Snyder, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Virgo or 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.
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Gary’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.4° to 1.2° orb
Gary’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextileMars0.5° to 0.9° orb
Gary’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
Gary’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.8° orb
Gary’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.1° to 2.9° orb
Gary’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileUranus2.6° to 3.8° orb
Gary’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto4.4° orb
Gary’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
Gary’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.1° orb
Gary’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 2.7° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gary’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Gary building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCancer 1°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Gary is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 24°32′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Gary is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Gary is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Gary at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.6°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.7°
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°).
Gary’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gary is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gary’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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gary Snyder, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on May 8
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Gary’s cards
Every card is computed from May 8, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gary Snyder, 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
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315963, 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 Fett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Snyder at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Gary Snyder.
Quick answers about Gary Snyder’s chart
- How old is Gary Snyder?
- Gary Snyder is 96 years old, born May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gary Snyder?
- Gary Snyder is a Taurus: born May 8, 1930, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse.
- What is Gary Snyder's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1930 birth.
- What time was Gary Snyder 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 is Gary Snyder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 8, 1930 birth date.
- What is Gary Snyder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 8, 1930 birth date.
- Where is Gary Snyder's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gary Snyder's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
