Howard Tayler
Howard Tayler (born February 29, 1968, Florida, United States), aged 58, is an American writer and webcartoonist. Tayler is best known for Schlock Mercenary. Tayler's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Howard Tayler’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Tayler’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Howard in the U.S.?
#1004
US rank in 2025
~348,342
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1968, 2,156 American boys and 15 girls were registered Howard — 133rd among boys and 3,500th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Howard apart
Ferran Torres (2000) and Tony Robbins (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Howard, according to the stars
Core essence
Howard feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Howard is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Howard wants to be loved
Howard wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Howard be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Howard creates
How Howard makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Howard creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Howard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Howard 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 Howard leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Howard 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 Howard's birth date. Working below.
Where Howard sits
Six lines
Howard’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Howard Tayler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Florida 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 Florida that night
Computed for 28.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Florida was Castor, in Gemini, 83.7° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Florida sits at 28.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Acrux cannot be seen from Florida at all: they sit past the −61.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
How unusual Howard's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
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 →Howard Tayler at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Howard Tayler's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 29, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Howard Tayler was born on February 29, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Howard Tayler's birth date, February 29, 1968, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Tayler's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Howard Tayler combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMoontrineNeptune0.0° to 6.4° orb
Howard’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.4° orb
Howard’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Howard’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.1° to 1.8° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.4° orb
stableVenussextileMars1.9° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 7.0° to 18.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Howard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 28°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 15°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 0°26′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 17°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.8°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Howard’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
More people like Howard
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- Anderson Cooper1967
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Born in United States
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- Molly RingwaldAmerican actress and writer (born 1968)
- Timothy OlyphantAmerican actor
- Mike PattonAmerican singer
- Sean BridgersAmerican actor and director
More charts like Howard’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Pyotr AvenRussian businessman, politician and economist
- Sulaiman Al-Habibbusinessperson
- Todd GravesAmerican businessman
Born in Monkey years
- Hjalmar BrantingPrime Minister of Sweden
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Otto Fritz MeyerhofGerman biochemist
Also born on February 29
- Ferran Torres2000
- Tony Robbins1960
- Khaled1960
- Dennis Farina1944
- Howard Nemerov1920
- Steve Mason1940
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Ramona SingerAmerican socialite and television personality
- Zach ShallcrossAmerican television personality
- Vanessa TrumpAmerican socialite and model, ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977)
Other Pisces Monkey charts
- Moira KellyAmerican actress (b. 1968)
- Sean BridgersAmerican actor and director
- Robert RossenAmerican screenwriter, film director, and producer
- Anna MagnaniItalian actress
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Ferdinand BuissonFrench academic and politician
- John SulstonBritish biologist and Nobel laureate
- Eugenio MontaleItalian poet
- Alan MacDiarmidNew Zealand chemist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Alexander NübelGerman association football player
- Fredrik AursnesNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
- Gonzalo MontielArgentinian association football player
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Howard’s cards
Computed from February 29, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14822525 (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 Nihonjoe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Tayler at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Howard Tayler.
Quick answers about Howard Tayler’s chart
- How old is Howard Tayler?
- Howard Tayler is 58 years old, born February 29, 1968 in Florida, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Howard Tayler?
- Howard Tayler is a Pisces: born February 29, 1968, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Howard Tayler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 29, 1968 birth.
- What is Howard Tayler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Howard Tayler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Howard Tayler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Howard Tayler's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
