Terry Carr
Terry Carr (born February 19, 1937, Grants Pass, United States; died 1987), was an American writer and editor. Carr's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor.
Terry Carr’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.How compatible are you with Terry Carr?
Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Terry. Under a minute.
Your AsterNym Match
?%Your score is waiting.
Two details and you have your number with Terry. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.
Your result includes:
- · Your compatibility percentage
- · What attracts you to each other
- · What you would bring to the match
- · Where you might clash
- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
Terry Carr’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Terry is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Terry processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Terry needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Terry wants to be loved
Terry wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Terry creates
How Terry 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. Terry 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: Terry is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Terry is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Terry runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Terry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Terry sits
Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.
Terry’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Terry Carr
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grants Pass on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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.
If you only read one paragraph
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Terry Carr's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 19, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Terry Carr was born on February 19, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Terry Carr's birth date, February 19, 1937, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Terry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Terry Carr's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Terry Carr combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Terry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Terry Carr, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Gemini 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
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
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.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
Terry’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.3° to 0.5° orb
Terry’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.6° to 1.3° orb
Terry’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.7° to 2.1° orb
Terry’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb
Terry’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
Terry’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileJupiter4.3° to 4.5° orb
Terry’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb
Terry’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrinePluto4.6° to 5.1° orb
Terry’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
Terry’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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 ℞Gemini 17°44′
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 Terry turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn or Aquarius during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Terry caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAquarius 6°22′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Terry is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Terry is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Terry is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros square Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 3.0°
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°).
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. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Terry is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Terry Carr, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Terry
Other writers
- Robert Caro1935
- Phil Knight1938
- George Bowering1935
- Ted White1938
- Kenneth Silverman1936
- Vincent O'Sullivan1937
Born in United States
- Susan KohnerAmerican actress
- Seymour HershAmerican investigative journalist (born 1937)
- Alfred UhryAmerican screenwriter (born 1936)
- Merle HaggardAmerican country music songwriter, singer, and musician
- David CarradineAmerican actor
- Billy Dee WilliamsAmerican actor (born 1937)
More charts like Terry’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Kunihiko KodairaJapanese mathematician
- Jean BourgainBelgian mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Paul HeyseGerman writer
Born in Ox years
- Larry PageAmerican computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
- George CarlinAmerican stand-up comedian
- Peter JacksonNew Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Also born on February 19
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner1953
- Jennifer Doudna1964
- Benicio del Toro1967
- Victoria Justice1993
- Mauro Icardi1993
- Marta1986
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Rémy GirardCanadian actor
- Tom McCamusCanadian actor
- Jacob TremblayCanadian actor
Other Pisces Ox charts
- Camryn ManheimAmerican actress
- Leo EsakiJapanese physicist (1925-)
- Robert HuberGerman chemist (1937-)
- Moungi BawendiAmerican chemist of French and Tunisian descent
Other Radiant Explorers
- Alex BachmanAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Thomas BookerAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Upton StoutAmerican football player (born 2002)
- LeeseoSouth Korean singer (born 2007)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Tomas LindahlNobel prize winning Swedish biologist
- Charles M. RiceAmerican virologist
- Bernard KatzGerman-British biophysicist
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Terry’s cards
Every card is computed from February 19, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Terry Carr, 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 Q1292432, 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.
The same Terry Carr 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 Terry Carr.
Quick answers about Terry Carr’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Terry Carr?
- Terry Carr was a Pisces: born February 19, 1937, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- What was Terry Carr's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1937 birth.
- What time was Terry Carr 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 Carr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 19, 1937 birth date.
- What was Terry Carr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 19, 1937 birth date.
- Where was Terry Carr's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Terry Carr's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
