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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Howard Tayler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Howard’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.4° orb
Howard’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars1.9° to 2.4° orb
Howard’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
Howard’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
Howard’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.0° to 6.1° orb
Howard’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
Howard’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 28°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Howard absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Howard is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ Eros ℞Libra 15°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Howard is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaPisces 0°26′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Howard needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 17°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Howard is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Howard’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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Howard is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Howard’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Howard Tayler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Howard’s cards
Every card is computed from February 29, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Howard Tayler, 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
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14822525, 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 Nihonjoe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Tayler at Wikipedia 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Howard Tayler 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 Howard Tayler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 29, 1968 birth date.
- What is Howard Tayler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 29, 1968 birth date.
- 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.
