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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with T. J. Stiles
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.
What T. J. Stiles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
T. J. Stiles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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 T. J. Stiles apart
T. J. Stiles took the National Book Award in 2009, at 45.
The classrooms behind this chart: Carleton College and Columbia University.
Wikipedia's editors put T. J. Stiles under People from Benton County, Minnesota, Shotokan practitioners and Carleton College alumni.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carleton College and Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2010), National Book Award (2009) and Pulitzer Prize for History (2016)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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. Working below.
Where T. J. Stiles sits
Six lines
T. J. Stiles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to T. J. Stiles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Foley 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 Foley that night
Computed for 45.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Foley was Rastaban, in Draco, 76.2° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 45.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Foley at all: they sit past the −44.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 72% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 2° below the horizon.
How unusual T.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 23°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 17°17′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 29°04′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Neptune 2.2°
T. J. Stiles’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in T. J. Stiles’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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
- Ted SarandosAmerican businessman
- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
- Vivica A. FoxAmerican actress
- Anne ApplebaumAmerican journalist and historian (born 1964)
- Adam DuritzAmerican singer
- David SpadeAmerican stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964)
More charts like T. J. Stiles’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand cricketer
- Ryan GarciaAmerican boxer
- Teófimo LópezAmerican boxer
Born in Dragon years
- Erling HaalandNorwegian footballer
- Orlando BloomEnglish actor and model
- Jack MaChinese businessman
Also born on July 29
- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Josh Radnor1974
- Sanjay Dutt1959
- Ginni Rometty1957
- Tim Gunn1953
- Fernando Alonso1981
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Frederick LoeweAustrian-American composer
- Nicolás TagliaficoArgentine association football player
- Kō ItakuraJapanese footballer (born 1997)
Other Leo Dragon charts
- Keenan WynnAmerican actor
- Jack WarnerAmerican film executive
- Brady CorbetAmerican film director and actor
- Wendell Meredith StanleyAmerican biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Josh GreenAustralian basketball player (born 2000)
- Alyssa LynchCanadian actress
- Steven A. CohenAmerican hedge fund manager and philanthropist
- Yasuhiro Fukushimabusinessman from Japan
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Malia Obamadaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
- Trevon DiggsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Rudy PankowAmerican actor
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T. J. Stiles’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
T. J. Stiles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15435632 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same T. J. Stiles at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by T. J. Stiles.
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.
- 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 is T. J. Stiles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is T. J. Stiles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
