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Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945, New York City, United States; died 2026), was an American writer. Kidder is best remembered for The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains. Kidder's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award and PEN New England Award.

Tracy Kidder’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Tracy Kidder’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Tracy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Tracy, according to the stars

Core essence

Tracy does not do surface. The core of Tracy is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Tracy is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Tracy 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 Tracy 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 Tracy creates

How Tracy makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Tracy creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Tracy is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Tracy is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Tracy 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 Tracy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Tracy sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Tracy

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tracy

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Tracy

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tracy

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Tracy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tracy

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tracy Kidder

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Tracy’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 81.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 40.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Tracy Kidder's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 12, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Tracy Kidder was born on November 12, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Tracy Kidder's birth date, November 12, 1945, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Tracy’s chart

Tracy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Tracy Kidder, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.3° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 3.3° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 19°58′☉19°Moon in Aquarius · 16°38′☽16°Mercury in Sagittarius · 11°36′☿11°Venus in Scorpio · 0°31′♀0°Mars in Leo · 0°13′♂0°Jupiter in Libra · 16°45′♃16°Saturn in Cancer · 24°52′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Gemini · 16°27′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Libra · 7°42′♆7°Pluto in Leo · 11°48′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Tracy’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Tracy’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Tracy’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMoontrineUranus0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Tracy’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb

    Tracy’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb

    Tracy’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb

    Tracy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.5° orb

    Tracy’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb

    Tracy’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

    Tracy’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.0° to 6.3° orb

    Tracy’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 5.5° orb

    Tracy’s drive and discipline act as one.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth 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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 15°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Tracy is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Tracy is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 24°23′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Tracy attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 12°02′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Tracy is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°35′ (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.

  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Uranus 1.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 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. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Tracy is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • Saturn quintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tracy Kidder, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Tracy’s cards

Every card is computed from November 12, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Tracy Kidder, 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 Q338109, 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 Bill O'Donnell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tracy Kidder at Wikipedia.

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 Kidder.

Quick answers about Tracy Kidder’s chart

What zodiac sign was Tracy Kidder?
Tracy Kidder was a Scorpio: born November 12, 1945, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
What was Tracy Kidder's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 12, 1945 birth.
What time was Tracy Kidder 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 Tracy Kidder's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 12, 1945 birth date.
What was Tracy Kidder's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 12, 1945 birth date.
Where was Tracy Kidder's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Tracy Kidder's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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