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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Gary
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
In 1930, 713 American boys and 15 girls were registered Gary — 194th among boys and 2,238th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as 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
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 record
What sets Gary apart
Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Gary sits
Six lines
Gary’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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Gary Snyder
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 78.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 86% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Gary's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 1°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 24°32′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Gary’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gary’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Gary’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Golda MeirPrime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
- Malcolm XAmerican Black rights activist
- Al PacinoAmerican actor
Born in Horse years
- Ron HowardAmerican film director, producer, and actor
- Ginnifer GoodwinAmerican actress
- Nelly FurtadoPortuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
- David Attenborough1926
- Pat Cummins1993
- Trisha Paytas1988
- Stephen Amell1981
- Olivia Culpo1992
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Robert IrwinAustralian conservationist and wildlife photographer (born 2003)
- Charlie KirkAmerican political activist
- Becca KufrinAmerican television personality
Other Taurus Horse charts
- Darius RuckerAmerican singer-songwriter
- Carly PearceAmerican country music singer-songwriter
- Kenan ThompsonAmerican comedian and actor (born 1978)
- Jerry SeinfeldAmerican comedian and actor
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Amy MadiganAmerican actress
- Giorgio MoroderItalian record producer and composer (born 1940)
- Angie DickinsonAmerican actress (born 1931)
- Richard LinklaterAmerican director and screenwriter (born 1960)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Arthur RubinsteinPolish-American classical pianist
- Rudolf SerkinBohemian-born American pianist
- Smokey RobinsonAmerican R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)
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
Computed from May 8, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315963 (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 Fett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Snyder at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Gary Snyder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gary Snyder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
