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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Timothy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Timothy Zahn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Timothy’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 3.5° orb
Timothy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 3.8° orb
Timothy’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Timothy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.4° to 4.1° orb
Timothy’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
Timothy’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Timothy’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
Timothy’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
Timothy’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°48′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Timothy building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 9°56′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Timothy is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Aries 21°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Timothy is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Timothy needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 6°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Timothy guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Timothy’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Timothy is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Timothy’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Timothy Zahn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Timothy’s cards
Every card is computed from September 1, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Timothy Zahn, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Timothy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q434029, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Arkon11, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Timothy Zahn at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- 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 time was Timothy Zahn born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Timothy Zahn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 1, 1951 birth date.
- What is Timothy Zahn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 1, 1951 birth date.
- 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.
