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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Terry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Terry sits

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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 →

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.

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. 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.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Terry’s chart

Terry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Terry Bisson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto3.4° to 3.8° orb

    Terry’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter3.5° to 3.9° orb

    Terry’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

    Terry’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Terry’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.3° orb

    Terry’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

    Terry’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.9° to 7.0° orb

    Terry’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter5.4° to 6.5° orb

    Terry’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

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

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

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

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Terry performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

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

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Terry is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Terry is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Terry is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Terry that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Terry’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. ♅ 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

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Terry 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 Terry’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, 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 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 0.0°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.2°

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

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Terry’s cards

Every card is computed from February 12, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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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

No birth time is on public record for Terry Bisson, 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

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

The same Terry Bisson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Snake.
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 time was Terry Bisson 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 Terry Bisson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 12, 1942 birth date.
What was Terry Bisson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 12, 1942 birth date.
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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