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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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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.
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Rod’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rod 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 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.
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Rod Serling in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Rod Serling, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° 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.
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
Rod’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.9° to 2.2° orb
Rod’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 5.1° orb
Rod’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 4.8° orb
Rod’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.6° orb
Rod’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.7° orb
Rod’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 6.7° orb
Rod’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Rod’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.4° orb
Rod’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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 ℞Aries 20°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Rod may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 26°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Rod looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 0°39′ (moves 0.58° 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. Rod is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 7°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Rod is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Rod guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Rod’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Rod is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Rod’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.
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 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rod Serling, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Rod’s cards
Every card is computed from December 25, 1924, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Rod Serling, 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
Rod’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q435920, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- 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 time was Rod Serling 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 Rod Serling's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 25, 1924 birth date.
- What was Rod Serling's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 25, 1924 birth date.
- 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.
