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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Studs
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.
What Studs’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Studs’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1912, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Studs apart
The Peabody Awards came in 1980, when Studs Terkel was 68.
Studs Terkel was taught at McKinley High School and University of Chicago Law School.
Cause of death is recorded as falling from height.
Wikipedia files Studs Terkel under American radio journalists, Culture of Chicago and Oral historians.
Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- McKinley High School and University of Chicago Law School
- Awards
- National Book Award (1997), Thomas Merton Award (1998) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1985)
- Cause of death
- falling from height
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
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. Working below.
Where Studs sits
Six lines
Studs’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 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.
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 Studs Terkel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Chicago, Cook County in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Studs Terkel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Studs's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets · 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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Taurus 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
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
stableSunsextileMars2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars6.4° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 4°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°04′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 27°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Studs’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Studs’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
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Born in Rat years
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- Quincy WilliamsAmerican football player
Also born on May 16
- Pierce Brosnan1953
- Janet Jackson1966
- Tucker Carlson1969
- Behati Prinsloo1988
- Megan Fox1986
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Fred VanVleetAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jahmai MashackAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Steven AdamsNew Zealand basketball player (born 1993)
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Marcel SabitzerAustrian footballer
- Mateo KovačićCroatian association football player (born 1994)
- Sander BergeNorwegian association football player (born 1998)
- Juan MussoArgentine footballer (born 1994)
Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Studs’s cards
Computed from May 16, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Studs’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q529276 (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 New photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Studs Terkel 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 Studs Terkel.
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.
- 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 was Studs Terkel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Studs Terkel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
