Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel (born May 16, 1912, New York City, United States; died 2008), was an American author, historian and broadcaster. Terkel's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Order of Lincoln and Thomas Merton Award.
Studs Terkel’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with Studs Terkel?
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Studs Terkel’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
Studs’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Studs, according to the stars
Core essence
Studs is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Studs is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Studs is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Studs needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Studs wants to be loved
Studs wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Studs is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Studs creates
How Studs makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Studs 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: Studs 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Studs is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Studs does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Studs's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Studs sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Studs Terkel at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Studs Terkel's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Studs Terkel was born on May 16, 1912, which falls in a Water 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 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Studs Terkel's birth date, May 16, 1912, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Studs’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Studs Terkel's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Studs Terkel combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Studs’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Studs Terkel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Taurus 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.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 0.8° orb
Studs’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 2.1° orb
Studs’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 1.9° orb
Studs’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.6° to 2.7° orb
Studs’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars2.0° to 2.4° orb
Studs’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
Studs’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
Studs’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb
Studs’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars6.4° to 6.9° orb
Studs’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Studs’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 10°46′ (moves 0.03° 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 Studs absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 4°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Studs is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°04′ (moves 0.23° 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. Studs is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Studs needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 27°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Studs is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Eros square Venus 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.4°
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°).
Studs’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, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Studs 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 Studs’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 Taurus · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Studs Terkel, 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
Studs’s cards
Every card is computed from May 16, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Studs Terkel, 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
Studs’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q529276, 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 New photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Studs Terkel 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.
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Quick answers about Studs Terkel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Studs Terkel?
- Studs Terkel was a Taurus: born May 16, 1912, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- What was Studs Terkel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1912 birth.
- What time was Studs Terkel 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 Studs Terkel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 16, 1912 birth date.
- What was Studs Terkel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 16, 1912 birth date.
- Where was Studs Terkel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Studs Terkel's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
