Leigh Brackett
Leigh Brackett (born December 7, 1915, Los Angeles, United States; died 1978), was an American novelist and screenwriter. Brackett is best remembered for Eric John Stark. Brackett's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and Poussière Prize.
Leigh Brackett’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Leigh
Leigh Brackett’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Leigh in the U.S.?
#4504
US rank in 2025
~45,349
Americans share it since 1882
1969
its peak year
In 1915, 31 American boys and 6 girls were registered Leigh — 1,174th among boys and 4,037th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leigh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on L (3) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leigh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Leigh apart
Eric John Stark. That is the work the name is attached to.
The record gives cancer as the cause, and Kinsman Cemetery New as the resting place.
On the family side, Leigh Brackett was married Edmond Hamilton.
On Wikipedia the categories read Western (genre) writers, People from Kinsman, Ohio and American women mystery writers.
Eli Wallach shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Eric John Stark
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1981), Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2014) and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (2020)
- Nominated for
- British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Locus Award for Best Anthology
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Buried at
- Kinsman Cemetery New
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Leigh, according to the stars
Core essence
Leigh is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Leigh is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Leigh wants to be loved
Leigh wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Leigh you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Leigh creates
How Leigh makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Leigh creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Leigh is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Leigh 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Leigh fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Leigh's birth date. Working below.
Where Leigh sits
Six lines
Leigh’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Leigh Brackett
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Almach, in Andromeda, 81.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
Sun 52° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Los Angeles, United States
The death is recorded at Lancaster, Los Angeles County in 1978.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leigh Brackett: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leigh's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →Leigh Brackett at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Leigh Brackett's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 7, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Leigh Brackett's birth date, December 7, 1915, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Leigh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leigh Brackett's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Leigh Brackett combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Leigh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileUranus1.5° to 2.5° orb
Leigh’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.7° to 3.3° orb
Leigh’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
Leigh’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 3.0° to 18.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineNeptuneorb from 6.9° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 7.5° to 22.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Leigh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 17°48′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 12°08′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.6°
- Chiron trine Saturn 3.0°
Leigh’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Leigh’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Born the same day as Leigh
Eli Wallach was born on December 7, 1915 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Los Angeles, at 34.1°N, nothing below −55.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Leigh
Other screenwriters
- Robert Mitchum1917
- Bernard Malamud1914
- Olivia de Havilland1916
- Jerome Weidman1913
- Robert Bloch1917
- Joe Shuster1914
Born in United States
- Gregory PeckAmerican actor
- Clifford ShullAmerican physicist
- Sam RaganAmerican poet
- Jean StaffordAmerican author
- Sterling HaydenAmerican actor
- Arthur MillerAmerican playwright and essayist
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on December 7
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- Charlie ApplebyBritish racehorse trainer
- Flavien PratFrench jockey
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Other Sagittarius Rabbit charts
- Sarah SnookAustralian actress (born 1987)
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Other Tidal Storytellers
- Ludwig MerckleGerman businessman
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- Viatcheslav Moshe KantorRussian businessman
- Rafael del Pino Calvo-SoteloExecutive Chairman of Ferrovial
Famous people with Life Path 8
- James MiddletonEnglish entrepreneur and younger brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Matt LanterAmerican actor
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Leigh’s cards
Computed from December 7, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leigh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298242 (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; most likely a professional photographer, possibly with "Amazing Stories" magazine., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leigh Brackett at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leigh Brackett.
Quick answers about Leigh Brackett’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leigh Brackett?
- Leigh Brackett was a Sagittarius: born December 7, 1915, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Leigh Brackett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 7, 1915 birth.
- What was Leigh Brackett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leigh Brackett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leigh Brackett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leigh Brackett's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
