Red Smith
Red Smith (born September 25, 1905, Green Bay, United States; died 1982), was an American sportswriter. Smith's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and George Polk Award.
Red Smith’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Red Smith’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Red in the U.S.?
#6075
US rank in 2025
~396
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Red’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Red, according to the stars
Core essence
Red makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Red is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Red needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Red needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Red wants to be loved
Red wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Red openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Red creates
How Red makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Red creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Red is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Red is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Red has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Red's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Red sits
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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.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Red Smith's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Red Smith was born on September 25, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Builds what others only dream about.
Red Smith's birth date, September 25, 1905, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Red’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Red Smith's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Red Smith combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Red’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Red Smith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Leo 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.7° orb
Red’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.8° to 1.5° orb
Red’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
Red’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineUranus1.5° to 2.7° orb
Red’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareMars2.2° to 3.2° orb
Red’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.0° to 4.7° orb
Red’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
Red’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.0° to 5.0° orb
Red’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
Red’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineMars6.4° to 6.9° orb
Red’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.6° orb
Red’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Red’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 1°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Red making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 7°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Red is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 0°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Red is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 21°40′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Red carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Red carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.7°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros trine Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.8°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Red’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Red is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Red’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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Red Smith, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Red’s cards
Every card is computed from September 25, 1905, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Red Smith, 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
Red’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7305064, 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.
The same Red Smith at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Smith.
Quick answers about Red Smith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Red Smith?
- Red Smith was a Libra: born September 25, 1905, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake.
- What was Red Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1905 birth.
- What time was Red Smith 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 Red Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1905 birth date.
- What was Red Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1905 birth date.
- Where was Red Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Red Smith's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
