Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (born February 26, 1918, Staten Island, United States; died 1985), was an American speculative fiction writer. Sturgeon is best remembered for Microcosmic God, Amok Time and More Than Human. Sturgeon's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Seiun Awards and Nebula Award.
Theodore Sturgeon’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Theodore
Theodore Sturgeon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Theodore in the U.S.?
#4
US rank in 2025
~318,175
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
Theodore ranked 64th among boys and 2,279th among girls in 1918, the year of this birth, with 3,143 American boys and 16 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Theodore’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Theodore’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Theodore apart
Johnny Cash (1932) and Helen Clark (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Theodore, according to the stars
Core essence
Theodore feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Theodore 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, Theodore is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Theodore needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Theodore wants to be loved
Theodore 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 Theodore be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Theodore creates
How Theodore makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Theodore builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Theodore is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Theodore is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Theodore channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Theodore's birth date. Working below.
Where Theodore sits
Six lines
Theodore’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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Theodore Sturgeon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Staten Island 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 Staten Island that night
Computed for 40.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Staten Island was Castor, in Gemini, 81.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Theodore's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →Theodore Sturgeon at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Theodore Sturgeon's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 26, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Theodore Sturgeon was born on February 26, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Theodore Sturgeon's birth date, February 26, 1918, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Theodore’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Theodore Sturgeon's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Theodore Sturgeon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Theodore’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Virgo 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
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.2° to 1.8° orb
Theodore’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
Theodore’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.1° to 3.5° orb
Theodore’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.2° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 3.4° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysquareJupiterorb from 6.8° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 7.5° to 19.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Theodore’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 28°05′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°17′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 12°40′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 11°01′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Mars 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.8°
Theodore’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Theodore’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.4°
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Fellow Pisces suns
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Also born on February 26
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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Other Pisces Horse charts
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Theodore’s cards
Computed from February 26, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Theodore’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q240253 (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 Theodore Sturgeon 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 Theodore Sturgeon.
Quick answers about Theodore Sturgeon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Theodore Sturgeon?
- Theodore Sturgeon was a Pisces: born February 26, 1918, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Theodore Sturgeon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 26, 1918 birth.
- What was Theodore Sturgeon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Theodore Sturgeon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Theodore Sturgeon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Theodore Sturgeon's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
