Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, United Kingdom; died 1998), was an English poet and children's writer. Hughes served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Hughes's honours include Order of Merit, Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award.
Ted Hughes’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Ted
Ted Hughes’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.
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
Ted ranked 156th among boys and 4,506th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 983 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ted’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 8: movement against ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ted apart
Robert De Niro (1943) and Herta Müller (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ted, according to the stars
Core essence
Ted is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ted 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 Ted wants to be loved
Ted wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ted gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Ted creates
How Ted 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. Ted 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: Ted is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Ted 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. Ted scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Ted's birth date. Working below.
Where Ted sits
Six lines
Ted’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.
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 Ted Hughes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mytholmroyd 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 Mytholmroyd that night
Computed for 53.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Mytholmroyd at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.4° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Mytholmroyd sits at 53.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 46% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
How unusual Ted's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Ted Hughes's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 17, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Ted Hughes was born on August 17, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Ted Hughes's birth date, August 17, 1930, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Ted’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ted Hughes' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ted Hughes 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.
Ted’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.3° orb
Ted’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Ted’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 1.0° orb
Ted’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus6.4° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ted’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 15°29′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 23°55′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 11°32′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.5°
Ted’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ted’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
Ted’s family here
One relative of Ted Hughes also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Also born on August 17
- Robert De Niro1943
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Ted’s cards
Computed from August 17, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272194 (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 Layle Silbert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted Hughes 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 Ted Hughes.
Quick answers about Ted Hughes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ted Hughes?
- Ted Hughes was a Leo: born August 17, 1930, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Ted Hughes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 17, 1930 birth.
- What was Ted Hughes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ted Hughes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ted Hughes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ted Hughes's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
