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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Tracy
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.?
#2171
US rank in 2025
~312,894
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
The SSA recorded 11,436 American girls and 2,540 boys named Tracy in 1972: 19th among girls and 111th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tracy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tracy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Tracy apart
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Tracy sits
Six lines
Tracy’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 Tracy K. Smith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Falmouth 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 Falmouth that night
Computed for 50.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Falmouth was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 85.8° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Falmouth sits at 50.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −39.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Falmouth on any night.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 13% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Tracy's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMarstrineUranus2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 14°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 11°17′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 17°17′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 11°13′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Tracy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Tracy’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
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- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
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- Brad W. FosterAmerican artist
- Jack VanceAmerican mystery and speculative fiction writer
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Tracy’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tracy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7831770 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Tracy K. Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tracy K. Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
