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Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson (born February 12, 1942, Madisonville, United States; died 2024), was an American science fiction and fantasy author. Bisson is best remembered for Talking Man. Bisson's honours include Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Terry Bisson’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Terry Bisson’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Terry in the U.S.?

#1116

US rank in 2025

~521,478

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

The SSA recorded 4,810 American boys and 818 girls named Terry in 1942: 52nd among boys and 235th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Terry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Terry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Terry apart

Abraham Lincoln (1809) and Charles Darwin (1809) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Terry, according to the stars

Core essence

Terry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Terry 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Terry is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Terry needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Terry wants to be loved

Terry 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 Terry be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Terry creates

How Terry makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Terry creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Terry is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Terry is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Terry is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Terry's birth date. Working below.

Where Terry sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Terry

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Terry

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

PrivateExpressive
Terry

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Terry

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Terry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Terry

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Terry Bisson

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

Terry’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80° 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 Madisonville that night

Computed for 37.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Madisonville was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 81.9° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

Madisonville sits at 37.3°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 −52.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 7% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.

How unusual Terry's chart is

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · No Water planets · Venus retrograde

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

Original, and fine with it.

Terry Bisson's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Terry Bisson was born on February 12, 1942, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Terry Bisson's birth date, February 12, 1942, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Terry’s chart

Terry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.5° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.7° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 23°22′☉23°Moon in Capricorn · 17°48′☽17°Mercury in Aquarius · 17°24′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Aquarius · 7°47′ · retrograde♀℞7°Mars in Taurus · 16°56′♂16°Jupiter in Gemini · 11°29′♃11°Saturn in Taurus · 22°01′♄22°Uranus in Taurus · 26°23′♅26°Neptune in Virgo · 29°24′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 4°14′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Terry’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb

    Terry’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto3.4° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter3.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.9° to 7.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter5.4° to 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

Terry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 10°34′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 17°45′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 6°28′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°59′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.6°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.8°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.8°

Terry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Terry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 0.0°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.2°

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Terry’s cards

Computed from February 12, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Terry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1444345 (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 George Kelly, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Terry Bisson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Terry Bisson.

Quick answers about Terry Bisson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Terry Bisson?
Terry Bisson was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Terry Bisson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1942 birth.
What was Terry Bisson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Terry Bisson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Terry Bisson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Terry Bisson's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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