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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~45,349
Americans share it since 1880
1969
its peak year
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Leigh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Leigh Brackett, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Leigh’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
Leigh’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb
Leigh’s core identity grinds against their growth.
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
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 18°09′ (moves 0.01° 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 Leigh absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 17°48′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Leigh is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Leigh is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 12°08′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Leigh is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Leigh that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Leigh’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Leigh is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Leigh’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Leigh Brackett, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Leigh
Eli Wallach was born on December 7, 1915 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Leigh’s cards
Every card is computed from December 7, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Leigh Brackett, 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
Leigh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298242, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- 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 time was Leigh Brackett 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 was Leigh Brackett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 7, 1915 birth date.
- What was Leigh Brackett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 7, 1915 birth date.
- 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.
