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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Red
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 1888
2024
its peak year
Red is in US records from 1888, but 1905 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2024.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Red’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Red’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Red apart
Will Smith (1968) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Red sits
Six lines
Red’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 Red Smith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Green Bay 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 Green Bay that night
Computed for 44.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Green Bay at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 8.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 44.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Green Bay at all: they sit past the −45.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Red's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Leo 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
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
stableMercurysquareMars2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.0° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
stableVenustrineMars6.4° to 6.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 1°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 7°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 0°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 21°40′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Red’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Red’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
More people like Red
Other journalists
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- Relman Morin1907
- William L. Laurence1888
- Edward J. Mowery1906
- Arnaldo Cortesi1897
- Laurence Edmund Allen1908
Born in United States
- Myrna LoyAmerican actress
- John HustonAmerican film director, screenwriter, and actor
- George H. HitchingsNobel Prize-winning American physician
- John HohenbergAmerican journalist and academic
- William S. WhiteAmerican journalist and biographer
- Lynn HeinzerlingAmerican correspondent
More charts like Red’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Austen ChamberlainBritish politician
- Arthur HardenBritish biochemist
- Martin RyleEnglish radio astronomer
Born in Snake years
- Jessie BuckleyIrish actress, singer and songwriter
- Bernardo BertolucciItalian film director and screenwriter
- June AllysonAmerican actress
Also born on September 25
- Will Smith1968
- Catherine Zeta-Jones1969
- Michael Douglas1944
- Ranbir Kapoor1982
- Rosalía1992
- Donald Glover1983
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Trey LanceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Rashawn SlaterAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Kayode AwosikaAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Libra Snake charts
- Senate SeeisoPrincess of Lesotho
- Alexander MalofeevRussian pianist
- David MorseAmerican actor
- Chris PennAmerican actor
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Leandro ParedesArgentine footballer
- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
- Rigoberto SanchezAmerican football punter
- Josh JobeAmerican football cornerback
Famous people with Life Path 22
- George StraitAmerican country music singer (born 1952)
- Paul TaylorAmerican choreographer
- Risë StevensAmerican opera singer, vocalist and actress
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Red’s cards
Computed from September 25, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
22 · Master Builder♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Red’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7305064 (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.
The same Red Smith at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Red Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Red Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
