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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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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.
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~75,424
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
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Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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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Ted Hughes in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Ted Hughes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Ted’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb
Ted’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
Ted’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 3.6° orb
Ted’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
Ted’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto5.0° orb
Ted’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.3° to 5.6° orb
Ted’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionUranus6.4° to 7.5° orb
Ted’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ted building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 15°29′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Ted is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus 23°55′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ted wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 11°32′ (moves 0.21° 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 Ted needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ted at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 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°
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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Ted is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
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 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 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ted Hughes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ted’s family here
One relative of Ted Hughes also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Ted’s cards
Every card is computed from August 17, 1930, 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
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
No birth time is on public record for Ted Hughes, 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 Q272194, 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 Layle Silbert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted Hughes at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was Ted Hughes 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 was Ted Hughes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 17, 1930 birth date.
- What was Ted Hughes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 17, 1930 birth date.
- 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.
