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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

The SSA recorded 150 American boys and 91 girls named Tracy in 1945: 492nd among boys and 789th among girls 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.

1

Expression · starting things

6

Soul Urge · being needed

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

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

The record

What sets Tracy apart

Grace Kelly (1929) and Anne Hathaway (1982) 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 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. Working below.

Where Tracy sits

Six lines

Tracy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon up and 51% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Tracy's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart · No Earth planets

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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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.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Tracy Kidder was born on November 12, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

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.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Tracy’s chart

Tracy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aquarius depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableJupitertrineUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.0° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 5.5° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Tracy’s dominant planets

  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

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.

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

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Tracy’s cards

Computed from November 12, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tracy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q338109 (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 Bill O'Donnell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tracy Kidder at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Tracy Kidder's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Tracy Kidder's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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