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Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser (born April 25, 1939, Ames, United States), aged 87, is an American poet. Kooser's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Ted Kooser’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Ted Kooser’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 33, 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

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

33 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Blush · Gold

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What the chart says

Ted, according to the stars

Core essence

Ted is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Ted is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Ted is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Ted needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Ted creates

How Ted makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ted creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Ted is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Ted is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ted does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Ted's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ted sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Ted

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ted

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ted

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ted

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Ted

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ted

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ted Kooser

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ames on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ted’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Ted Kooser at a glance

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Ted Kooser's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 25, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Ted Kooser was born on April 25, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 33

Lifts the room by example.

Ted Kooser's birth date, April 25, 1939, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.

What stands out in Ted’s chart

Ted’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ted Kooser, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 2.8° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Taurus · 4°38′☉4°Moon in Cancer · 21°12′☽21°Mercury in Aries · 8°41′☿8°Venus in Aries · 0°11′♀0°Mars in Capricorn · 18°26′♂18°Jupiter in Pisces · 26°45′♃26°Saturn in Aries · 22°46′♄22°Uranus in Taurus · 17°03′♅17°Neptune in Virgo · 20°54′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Cancer · 29°16′♇29°

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.

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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.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Ted’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.2° to 1.6° orb

    Ted’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.2° to 2.7° orb

    Ted’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb

    Ted’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb

    Ted’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

    Ted’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.5° orb

    Ted’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.9° orb

    Ted’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.7° to 6.0° orb

    Ted’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.4° to 6.6° orb

    Ted’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 5°38′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Ted is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°50′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ted feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosAries 7°33′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Ted is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°21′ (moves 0.09° 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 LilithAquarius 14°00′ (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.

  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.0°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.1°

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. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ted is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 1.9°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ted Kooser, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Ted’s cards

Every card is computed from April 25, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ted Kooser, 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 Q140196, 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.

The same Ted Kooser at Wikipedia 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 Kooser.

Quick answers about Ted Kooser’s chart

How old is Ted Kooser?
Ted Kooser is 87 years old, born April 25, 1939 in Ames, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ted Kooser?
Ted Kooser is a Taurus: born April 25, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
What is Ted Kooser's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 25, 1939 birth.
What time was Ted Kooser 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 Kooser's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the April 25, 1939 birth date.
What is Ted Kooser's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 25, 1939 birth date.
Where is Ted Kooser's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ted Kooser's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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