Terry Southern
Terry Southern (born May 1, 1924, Alvarado, United States; died 1995), was an American writer. Southern's honours include O. Henry Award and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Terry Southern’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Terry
Terry Southern’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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
In 1924, 140 American boys and 116 girls were registered Terry — 534th among boys and 692nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Terry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against 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
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Terry apart
Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) 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 the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Terry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Terry runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Terry needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Terry wants to be loved
Terry wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Terry like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Terry creates
How Terry makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Terry creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Terry is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Terry is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Terry goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Southern
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Alvarado 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 Alvarado that night
Computed for 32.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Alvarado at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Alvarado sits at 32.4°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 −57.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
How unusual Terry's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Terry Southern's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Terry Southern was born on May 1, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Terry Southern's birth date, May 1, 1924, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Terry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Terry Southern's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Terry Southern combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Terry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Terry’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb
Terry’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.3° orb
Terry’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.7° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.8° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Terry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 21°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 9°09′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 19°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 22°26′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.8°
Terry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Terry’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
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Born in Rat years
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- Meg TillyAmerican-Canadian actress
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Also born on May 1
- Charli D'Amelio2004
- Jamie Dornan1982
- Rema2000
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- Victoria Monét1989
- Freida McFadden1980
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Adonai MitchellAmerican football player (born 2002)
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Terry’s cards
Computed from May 1, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Terry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q591270 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Terry Southern at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Terry Southern.
Quick answers about Terry Southern’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Terry Southern?
- Terry Southern was a Taurus: born May 1, 1924, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Terry Southern's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1924 birth.
- What was Terry Southern's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Terry Southern's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Terry Southern's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Terry Southern's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
