Rod Serling
Rod Serling (born December 25, 1924, Syracuse, United States; died 1975), was an American screenwriter. Serling is best remembered for Patterns, The Twilight Zone and Planet of the Apes. Serling's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Purple Heart.
Rod Serling’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Rod
Rod Serling’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Rod in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~8,744
Americans share it since 1910
1960
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Rod falls under that line for 1924. Its peak came in 1960, and 8,744 Americans have carried it since 1910.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rod’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 R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rod’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Rod apart
Justin Trudeau (1971) and Adut Akech (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rod, according to the stars
Core essence
Rod is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Rod is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Rod wants to be loved
Rod wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Rod and watch them fall for you again.
How Rod creates
How Rod makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Rod creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Rod is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rod 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Rod 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 Rod's birth date. Working below.
Where Rod sits
Six lines
Rod’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Rod Serling
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Syracuse 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 Syracuse that night
Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Syracuse at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Syracuse on any night.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual Rod's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · No Air planets
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Rod Serling's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 25, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Rod Serling was born on December 25, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Rod Serling's birth date, December 25, 1924, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Rod’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rod Serling's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rod Serling combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Rod’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° 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
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Rod’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenustrineMars0.7° to 1.4° orb
Rod’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
Rod’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.6° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter1.9° to 2.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 6.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Rod’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 26°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 0°39′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 7°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.9°
Rod’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Rod’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Saturn, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
More people like Rod
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- Norman Mailer1923
- Brian Aldiss1925
- Jack Klugman1922
- Dick Van Dyke1925
- Bernice Rubens1923
Born in United States
- Hugh O'BrianAmerican actor and United States Marine
- Chuck StoneAmerican pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author
- Maria TallchiefAmerican ballerina
- John L. GauntAmerican photographer
- Jack LemmonAmerican actor
- Lauren BacallAmerican actress
More charts like Rod’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Diane von FürstenbergBelgian-born American fashion designer
- Victor WembanyamaFrench basketball player
- Nicola PeltzAmerican actress
Born in Rat years
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Also born on December 25
- Justin Trudeau1971
- Adut Akech1999
- Helena Christensen1968
- Rob Mariano1975
- Humphrey Bogart1899
- Barton MacLane1902
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Carol Ann DuffyScottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
- Dionne BrandCanadian writer, poet
- Soc ClayAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
Other Capricorn Rat charts
- Bill KellerAmerican journalist
- Daniel Walker HoweAmerican historian
- James LapineAmerican stage director and librettist. (born 1949)
- David LeonhardtAmerican journalist
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Auguste BeernaertBelgian prime minister and human rights activist
- Reinhard GenzelGerman astronomer
- Craig MelloAmerican biologist
- Alfonso García RoblesMexican diplomat and politician
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Adedayo OdeleyeNigerian-British gridiron football player (born 1997)
- Markquese BellAmerican football player (born 1999)
- D. J. HumphriesAmerican football player
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Rod’s cards
Computed from December 25, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rod’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q435920 (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 CBS Television via the Bureau of Industrial Service. During the 1950s and 1960s, television networks, program sponsors and studios often used either advertising or public relations agencies to distribute publicity materials. The Bureau was a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rod Serling at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rod Serling.
Quick answers about Rod Serling’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rod Serling?
- Rod Serling was a Capricorn: born December 25, 1924, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Rod Serling's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 25, 1924 birth.
- What was Rod Serling's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Rod Serling's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Rod Serling's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rod Serling's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
