Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt (born December 12, 1976, Goldsboro, United States), aged 49, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1976-). Pratt's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Tim Pratt’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Tim
Tim Pratt’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Tim in the U.S.?
#3230
US rank in 2025
~83,546
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1976, Tim came 460th among boys and 10,784th among girls, carried by 291 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Tim apart
Frank Sinatra (1915) and Jennifer Connelly (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Tim, according to the stars
Core essence
Tim is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Tim is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Tim wants to be loved
Tim 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 Tim be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Tim creates
How Tim makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Tim creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Tim is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Tim 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Tim has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Tim's birth date. Working below.
Where Tim sits
Six lines
Tim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Tim Pratt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Goldsboro 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 Goldsboro that night
Computed for 35.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Goldsboro was Almach, in Andromeda, 82.7° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 35.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Goldsboro on any night.
The Moon, 65% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Tim's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius
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 →Tim Pratt at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Tim Pratt's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 12, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Tim Pratt was born on December 12, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Tim Pratt's birth date, December 12, 1976, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Tim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tim Pratt's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tim Pratt combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Tim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Leo or 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Tim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.2° to 1.5° orb
Tim’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.6° to 1.3° orb
Tim’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.0° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 7.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Tim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 0°56′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°19′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 17°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°21′ (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 square Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.2°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.9°
Tim’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Mercury; 6 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Tim’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
More people like Tim
Other science fiction writers
- Richard E. Geis1927
- Gordon R. Dickson1923
- Herman Wouk1915
Born in United States
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- Dustin DiamondAmerican actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
More charts like Tim’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Daniel SnyderAmerican businessman (born 1964)
- Eduardo EurnekianArgentine businessman
- Jeff GreeneReal estate billionaire
Born in Dragon years
- Isaiah LikelyAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tyree WilsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Colby WoodenAmerican football player (born 2000)
Also born on December 12
- Frank Sinatra1915
- Jennifer Connelly1970
- Mayim Bialik1975
- Robert Noyce1927
- Regina Hall1970
- Kimberly Loaiza1997
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Joy Bale BooneAmerican poet laureate of Kentucky
- Vincent O'SullivanNew Zealand writer
- Jane Gentry VanceAmerican poet and college professor from Kentucky
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
- Zoë KravitzAmerican actress, director, singer and model
- David RudishaKenyan middle distance runner
- Nicolas BatumFrench basketball player
- Russell WilsonAmerican football player
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Paul MescalIrish actor
- Stephen NedoroscikAmerican gymnast
- Juliette LewisAmerican actress and singer
- Kailyn LowryAmerican television personality
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Alan DuganAmerican poet
- Tad MoselAmerican playwright
- Anthony SuauAmerican photographer
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Tim’s cards
Computed from December 12, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6055713 (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 Tim Pratt at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tim Pratt.
Quick answers about Tim Pratt’s chart
- How old is Tim Pratt?
- Tim Pratt is 49 years old, born December 12, 1976 in Goldsboro, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tim Pratt?
- Tim Pratt is a Sagittarius: born December 12, 1976, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Tim Pratt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 12, 1976 birth.
- What is Tim Pratt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tim Pratt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tim Pratt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tim Pratt's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
