Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born October 20, 1967, Port Jefferson, United States), aged 58, is an American science fiction writer. Chiang is best known for Exhalation, Story of Your Life and Tower of Babylon. Chiang's honours include Theodore Sturgeon Award, Astounding Award for Best New Writer and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Ted Chiang’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Ted Chiang’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ted in the U.S.?
#3229
US rank in 2025
~75,424
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ted, according to the stars
Core essence
Ted makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ted is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Ted 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 Ted needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Ted wants to be loved
Ted wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ted and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ted creates
How Ted makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ted creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Ted is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ted 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ted has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Ted's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ted sits
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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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Ted Chiang at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Ted Chiang's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Ted Chiang was born on October 20, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Ted Chiang's birth date, October 20, 1967, 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 Ted’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ted Chiang's date-only chart is Mars square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ted Chiang combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Ted’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ted Chiang, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° 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.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.8° orb
Ted’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareUranus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Ted’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Ted’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars1.5° to 1.8° orb
Ted’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.7° to 2.3° orb
Ted’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
Ted’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.7° orb
Ted’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextilePluto4.4° orb
Ted’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.1° orb
Ted’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Ted’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto6.2° to 6.9° orb
Ted’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ted’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 26°16′ (moves 0.04° 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 Ted absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 26°07′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ted caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCancer 17°08′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Ted is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°32′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ted is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ted is read as immovable on those points.
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 trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Chiron square Mars 2.0°
- Ceres square Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 3.0°
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°).
Ted’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Ted is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Ted’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 Virgo · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ted Chiang, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Ted
Luigi Lo Cascio was born on October 20, 1967 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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- Joe FrancisAmerican criminal and founder of Girls Gone Wild (born 1973)
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Ted’s cards
Every card is computed from October 20, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ted Chiang, 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
Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q503095, 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 Arturo Villarrubia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted Chiang at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Ted Chiang.
Quick answers about Ted Chiang’s chart
- How old is Ted Chiang?
- Ted Chiang is 58 years old, born October 20, 1967 in Port Jefferson, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ted Chiang?
- Ted Chiang is a Libra: born October 20, 1967, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- What is Ted Chiang's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1967 birth.
- What time was Ted Chiang 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 Ted Chiang's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 20, 1967 birth date.
- What is Ted Chiang's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 20, 1967 birth date.
- Where is Ted Chiang's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ted Chiang's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
