Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn (born September 1, 1951, Chicago, United States), aged 75, is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. Zahn is best known for Grand Admiral Thrawn. Zahn's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella and Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Timothy Zahn’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Timothy
Timothy Zahn’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Timothy in the U.S.?
#203
US rank in 2025
~1,088,520
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1951, Timothy came 28th among boys and 3,268th among girls, carried by 12,705 American boys and 12 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Timothy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Timothy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Timothy apart
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Timothy, according to the stars
Core essence
Timothy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Timothy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Timothy 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 Timothy needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Timothy wants to be loved
Timothy wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Timothy and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Timothy creates
How Timothy 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. Timothy 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: Timothy is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Timothy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Timothy fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Timothy's birth date. Working below.
Where Timothy sits
Six lines
Timothy’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Timothy Zahn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Vega, in Lyra, 85.6° up.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Timothy's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Timothy Zahn at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Timothy Zahn's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Timothy Zahn was born on September 1, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Timothy Zahn's birth date, September 1, 1951, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Timothy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Timothy Zahn's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Timothy Zahn combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Timothy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupitersquareUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Timothy’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 7.9° orb
Timothy’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.6° orb
Timothy’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileUranus1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Timothy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°48′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 9°56′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 21°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 6°39′ (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 sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Sun 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.8°
Timothy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Timothy’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, 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-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
More people like Timothy
Other novelists
- Julian Barnes1946
- Kiran Desai1971
- Isabel Allende1942
- Anthony Doerr1973
- Ursula K. Le Guin1929
- Nnedi Okorafor1974
Born in United States
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- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- David HorseyAmerican cartoonist and columnist (born 1951)
- Orson Scott CardAmerican science fiction novelist (born 1951)
- Harry HamlinAmerican actor
- John DoerrAmerican businessman
More charts like Timothy’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- James GandolfiniAmerican actor
- Jack MaChinese businessman
- Murray Gell-MannAmerican physicist
Born in Rabbit years
- Riley PattersonAmerican football player
- Matt HenningsenAmerican football defensive tackle
- Andrei IosivasAmerican football player
Also born on September 1
- Gloria Estefan1957
- Jungkook1997
- An Yu-jin2003
- Zendaya1996
- Romeo Beckham2002
- Tom Kaulitz1989
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
- Cooper FlaggAmerican basketball player
- Tory LanezCanadian rapper and singer
Other Virgo Rabbit charts
- Precious AchiuwaNigerian basketball player (born 1999)
- Jaren Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
- Vasily AnisimovRussian businessman
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Tawakkol KarmanYemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activist
- Liza MinnelliAmerican actress and singer
- Helena Bonham CarterBritish actress
- Jessica SimpsonAmerican singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Hedy Lamarr
- Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete
- Enrique IglesiasSpanish singer, songwriter and producer
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Timothy’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Timothy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q434029 (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 Arkon11, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Timothy Zahn 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 Timothy Zahn.
Quick answers about Timothy Zahn’s chart
- How old is Timothy Zahn?
- Timothy Zahn is 75 years old, born September 1, 1951 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Timothy Zahn?
- Timothy Zahn is a Virgo: born September 1, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Timothy Zahn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1951 birth.
- What is Timothy Zahn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Timothy Zahn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Timothy Zahn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Timothy Zahn's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
