T. J. Stiles
T. J. Stiles (born July 29, 1964, Foley, United States), aged 62, is an American biographer and historian. Stiles's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Pulitzer Prize for History and National Book Award.
T. J. Stiles’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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T. J. Stiles’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
T. J. Stiles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
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What the chart says
T. J. Stiles, according to the stars
Core essence
T. J. Stiles is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of T. J. Stiles is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How T. J. Stiles wants to be loved
T. J. Stiles wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to T. J. Stiles like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How T. J. Stiles creates
How T. J. Stiles makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. T. J. Stiles creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: T. J. Stiles is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. T. J. Stiles is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. T. J. Stiles scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from T. J. Stiles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
T. J. Stiles's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
T. J. Stiles was born on July 29, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
T. J. Stiles's birth date, July 29, 1964, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in T. J. Stiles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in T. J. Stiles' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- T. J. Stiles combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
T. J. Stiles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for T. J. Stiles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.9° orb
T. J. Stiles’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
T. J. Stiles’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
T. J. Stiles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 3.8° orb
T. J. Stiles’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.5° orb
T. J. Stiles’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
T. J. Stiles’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.4° orb
T. J. Stiles’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
T. J. Stiles’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb
T. J. Stiles’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
T. J. Stiles’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.3° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.6° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
T. J. Stiles’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 ℞Pisces 18°10′ (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 T. J. Stiles absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 23°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. T. J. Stiles is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 17°17′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has T. J. Stiles loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 29°04′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has T. J. Stiles needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has T. J. Stiles leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Neptune 2.2°
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°).
T. J. Stiles’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: T. J. Stiles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 T. J. Stiles’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for T. J. Stiles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like T. J. Stiles
Other historians
- Farah Mendlesohn1968
- Greg Grandin1962
- Taylor Armstrong1971
- Ada Ferrer1962
- Bill Dedman1960
- Elizabeth A. Fenn1959
Born in United States
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- Vivica A. FoxAmerican actress
- Anne ApplebaumAmerican journalist and historian (born 1964)
- Adam DuritzAmerican singer
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Also born on July 29
- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
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- Sanjay Dutt1959
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T. J. Stiles’s cards
Every card is computed from July 29, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for T. J. Stiles, 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
T. J. Stiles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15435632, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same T. J. Stiles at Wikipedia.
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 T. J. Stiles’s chart
- How old is T. J. Stiles?
- T. J. Stiles is 62 years old, born July 29, 1964 in Foley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is T. J. Stiles?
- T. J. Stiles is a Leo: born July 29, 1964, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is T. J. Stiles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1964 birth.
- What time was T. J. Stiles 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 is T. J. Stiles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1964 birth date.
- What is T. J. Stiles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1964 birth date.
- Where is T. J. Stiles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is T. J. Stiles's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
