Ted White
Ted White (born February 4, 1938, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2026), was an American writer. White's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Ted White’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Ted White’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~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
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
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What the chart says
Ted, according to the stars
Core essence
Ted is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ted is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Ted wants to be loved
Ted wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Ted be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ted is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ted gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Ted White in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Ted White's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Ted White was born on February 4, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Ted White's birth date, February 4, 1938, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Ted’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ted White's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ted White combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Ted’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ted White, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.3° orb
Ted’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.2° orb
Ted’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb
Ted’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.7° to 2.3° orb
Ted’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 4.5° orb
Ted’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Ted’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.5° to 4.9° orb
Ted’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
Ted’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb
Ted’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto4.8° to 5.6° orb
Ted’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
Ted’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb
Ted’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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 ℞Gemini 25°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Ted turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresPisces 15°32′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ted is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosGemini 18°38′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Ted is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 2°05′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Ted is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Ted leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.8°
- Eros square Neptune 2.0°
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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Ted is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Aquarius · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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 biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ted White, 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 February 4, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ted White, 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 Q6145872, 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 User:Ftld, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted White at Wikipedia.
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 White.
Quick answers about Ted White’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ted White?
- Ted White was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1938, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- What was Ted White's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1938 birth.
- What time was Ted White 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 White's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 4, 1938 birth date.
- What was Ted White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 4, 1938 birth date.
- Where was Ted White's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ted White's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
