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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Terry
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
The SSA recorded 1,684 American boys and 232 girls named Terry in 1937: 113th among boys and 425th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Terry apart
The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine came in 1959, when Terry Carr was 22.
Terry Carr was taught at City College of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
The family line: married Carol Carr.
Wikipedia files Terry Carr under Educators from Oregon, People from Grants Pass, Oregon and City College of San Francisco alumni.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- City College of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (1973), Hugo Award for Best Fanzine (1959) and Locus Award for Best Anthology (1979)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Locus Award for Best Reprint Anthology/Collection
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
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. Working below.
Where Terry sits
Six lines
Terry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where 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.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Grants Pass that night
Computed for 42.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Grants Pass at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Grants Pass sits at 42.4°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 −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 72% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grants Pass, United States
The death is recorded at United States in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Terry Carr: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Terry's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Gemini 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
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
stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°44′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn or Aquarius during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°22′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Terry’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Terry’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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
Computed from February 19, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Terry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1292432 (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.
The same Terry Carr at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Terry Carr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Terry Carr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
