Tony Auth
Tony Auth (born May 7, 1942, Akron, United States; died 2014), was an American cartoonist. Auth's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and Herblock Prize.
Tony Auth’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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Tony Auth’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Tony in the U.S.?
#784
US rank in 2025
~254,483
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Tony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tony, according to the stars
Core essence
Tony 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 Tony 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, Tony needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Tony needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Tony wants to be loved
Tony wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Tony creates
How Tony makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tony 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: Tony 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Tony is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Tony leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Tony does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Tony's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tony sits
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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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Tony Auth at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Tony Auth's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Tony Auth was born on May 7, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Tony Auth's birth date, May 7, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Tony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tony Auth's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tony Auth combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Tony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tony Auth, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aquarius 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.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.6° orb
Tony’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.3° orb
Tony’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenustrinePluto1.3° to 2.4° orb
Tony’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.4° to 2.3° orb
Tony’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
Tony’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.2° orb
Tony’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 2.9° orb
Tony’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb
Tony’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 5.3° orb
Tony’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Tony’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
Tony’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.0° to 5.6° orb
Tony’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Tony’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 8°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Tony performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 18°22′ (moves 0.31° 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: Tony is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 18°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Tony is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 17°16′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Tony needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Tony that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros square Sun 2.1°
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°).
Tony’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. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Tony is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Tony’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 Taurus · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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 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-square Venus 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tony Auth, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Tony’s cards
Every card is computed from May 7, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tony Auth, 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
Tony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7821790, 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 Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tony Auth at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Tony Auth’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Tony Auth?
- Tony Auth was a Taurus: born May 7, 1942, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- What was Tony Auth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1942 birth.
- What time was Tony Auth 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 was Tony Auth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 7, 1942 birth date.
- What was Tony Auth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 7, 1942 birth date.
- Where was Tony Auth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Tony Auth's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
