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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Ted
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.
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
In 1938, 1,111 American boys were registered Ted — 147th on the SSA's list that 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
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Ted apart
The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer came in 1968, when Ted White was 30.
Ted White was 21 when the work began in 1959.
On Wikipedia the categories read American speculative fiction critics, Comics critics and Analog Science Fiction and Fact people.
Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931) and Jenny Shipley (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (1968)
- Nominated for
- Nebula Award for Best Short Story
- Working from
- 1959
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
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. 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 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.
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 White
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 20% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Ted's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aquarius
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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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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.8° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 25°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 15°32′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 18°38′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 2°05′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.8°
- Eros square Neptune 2.0°
Ted’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ted’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.6°
More people like Ted
Other writers
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- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich1938
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- Edna Buchanan1939
- Seymour Hersh1937
- Charles Simic1938
Born in United States
- Les WexnerAmerican businessman (1937-present)
- Larry NivenAmerican writer (born 1938)
- Charles ButtAmerican grocer
- Laurel Thatcher UlrichAmerican historian
- Linda LavinAmerican actress and singer
- Phil KnightAmerican billionaire and co-founder of Nike
More charts like Ted’s
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Born in Tiger years
- Davion MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jericho SimsAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Austin ReavesAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
Also born on February 4
- Isabel Martínez de Perón1931
- Jenny Shipley1952
- Hunter Biden1970
- Zach King1990
- Gavin DeGraw1977
- Jeff Dye1983
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Gérard WertheimerFrench businessman
- Len BlavatnikBritish-American business magnate
- Prajogo PangestuIndonesian businessman
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
- İsmail YüksekTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Samir CherguiAlgerian football player
- Travis EtienneAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Chauncey GolstonAmerican football player
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Kurt RussellAmerican actor
- Hailee SteinfeldAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
- Cobie SmuldersCanadian actress
- Jesse EisenbergAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Diem BrownAmerican television personality; reality TV star
- Edward BurnsAmerican actor and director
- Ally BrookeAmerican singer
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Ted’s cards
Computed from February 4, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6145872 (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 User:Ftld, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted White at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Ted White's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ted White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
