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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

The SSA recorded 1,079 American boys and 6 girls named Ted in 1939: 149th among boys and 4,201st among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ted’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

22

Expression · building at scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4).

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

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

The record

What sets Ted apart

Al Pacino (1940) and Guglielmo Marconi (1874) 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 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. Working below.

Where Ted sits

Six lines

Ted’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Ames that night

Computed for 42.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Ames at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Ames sits at 42.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 43% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Ted's chart is

Chart pattern score

67 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn · 2 planets 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.

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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.

What Taurus means →

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.

What the Rabbit means →

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.

What Life Path 33 means →

What stands out in Ted’s chart

Ted’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.7° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°21′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Ted’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Ted’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Ted’s cards

Computed from April 25, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

33 · Lightkeeper

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q140196 (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.

The same Ted Kooser at Wikipedia 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 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.
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 is Ted Kooser's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
What is Ted Kooser's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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