Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972, Falmouth, United Kingdom), aged 54, is an American poet (born 1972). Smith is best known for Life on Mars. Smith's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and United States Poet Laureate.
Tracy K. Smith’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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Tracy K. Smith’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Tracy in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~312,894
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
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Tracy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Tracy, according to the stars
Core essence
Tracy leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Tracy is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Tracy wants to be loved
Tracy wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tracy like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Tracy creates
How Tracy makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Tracy creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Tracy is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Tracy is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Tracy scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Tracy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tracy sits
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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.
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Tracy K. Smith in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Tracy K. Smith's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Tracy K. Smith was born on April 16, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Tracy K. Smith's birth date, April 16, 1972, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Tracy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tracy K. Smith's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Tracy K. Smith combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Tracy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tracy K. Smith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.4° to 0.5° orb
Tracy’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Tracy’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.8° to 1.0° orb
Tracy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Tracy’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarstrineUranus2.3° to 3.0° orb
Tracy’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
Tracy’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
Tracy’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 4.4° orb
Tracy’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
Tracy’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Tracy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb
Tracy’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Tracy’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.
⚷ ChironAries 14°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Tracy may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 11°17′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Tracy is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 17°17′ (moves 0.48° 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. Tracy is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 11°13′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Tracy carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Tracy is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 Venus 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.9°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
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°).
Tracy’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Tracy 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 Tracy’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tracy K. Smith, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Tracy’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tracy K. Smith, 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
Tracy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7831770, 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 Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tracy K. Smith at Wikipedia, tracyksmithpoet.com and Instagram.
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 Tracy K. Smith.
Quick answers about Tracy K. Smith’s chart
- How old is Tracy K. Smith?
- Tracy K. Smith is 54 years old, born April 16, 1972 in Falmouth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Tracy K. Smith?
- Tracy K. Smith is an Aries: born April 16, 1972, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Tracy K. Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1972 birth.
- What time was Tracy K. Smith 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 Tracy K. Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 16, 1972 birth date.
- What is Tracy K. Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1972 birth date.
- Where is Tracy K. Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tracy K. Smith's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
