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Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove (born June 14, 1949, Los Angeles, United States), aged 77, is an American author (born 1949). Turtledove is best known for The Two Georges and The Guns of the South. Turtledove's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella and Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Harry Turtledove’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Harry

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Harry Turtledove’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#775

US rank in 2025

~425,883

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 5,544 American boys and 16 girls named Harry in 1949: 59th among boys and 2,554th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

The record

What sets Harry apart

Che Guevara (1928) and Donald J. Trump (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Harry, according to the stars

Core essence

Harry is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Harry needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Harry needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Harry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Harry wants to be loved

Harry wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Harry gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Harry creates

How Harry makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Harry creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Harry is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Harry is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Harry scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Harry's birth date. Working below.

Where Harry sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Harry

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harry

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Harry

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harry

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

PracticalVisionary
Harry

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harry

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Harry Turtledove

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Izar stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Boötes.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 80% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.

How unusual Harry's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 planets 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.

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Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Harry Turtledove's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 14, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Harry Turtledove was born on June 14, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Harry Turtledove's birth date, June 14, 1949, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Harry’s chart

Harry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.4° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbSun in Gemini · 23°24′☉23°Moon in Aquarius · 12°03′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 8°43′ · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Cancer · 9°02′♀9°Mars in Gemini · 3°25′♂3°Jupiter in Aquarius · 1°11′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Virgo · 0°59′♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 0°17′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 12°25′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Leo · 14°41′♇14°

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

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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

  • stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.7° orb

    Harry’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.7° orb

    Harry’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Harry’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.9° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus6.4° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.6° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 4°42′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 29°06′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 20°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 11°00′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.2°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.5°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.9°

Harry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Harry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.9°

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Harry’s cards

Computed from June 14, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q455780 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Harry Turtledove at Wikipedia and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harry Turtledove.

Quick answers about Harry Turtledove’s chart

How old is Harry Turtledove?
Harry Turtledove is 77 years old, born June 14, 1949 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Harry Turtledove?
Harry Turtledove is a Gemini: born June 14, 1949, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Harry Turtledove's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 14, 1949 birth.
What is Harry Turtledove's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Harry Turtledove's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Harry Turtledove's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Harry Turtledove's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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