Ty Franck
Ty Franck (born May 18, 1969, Portland, United States), aged 57, is an American science fiction writer (1969-). Franck is best known for The Expanse. Franck's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Ty Franck’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ty Franck
Ty Franck’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ty Franck in the U.S.?
#813
US rank in 2025
~48,344
Americans share it since 1915
2005
its peak year
The SSA recorded 424 American boys and 6 girls named Ty in 1969: 381st among boys and 7,433rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ty Franck’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
Ty Franck’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The record
What sets Ty Franck apart
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ty Franck, according to the stars
Core essence
Ty Franck 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 Ty Franck 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.
How Ty Franck wants to be loved
Ty Franck 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 Ty Franck creates
How Ty Franck makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ty Franck creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ty Franck 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ty Franck 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ty Franck has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Ty Franck's birth date. Working below.
Where Ty Franck sits
Six lines
Ty Franck’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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 Ty Franck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland 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 Portland that night
Computed for 45.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Portland at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 8.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
Portland sits at 45.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 8% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
How unusual Ty's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Ty Franck's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Ty Franck was born on May 18, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Ty Franck's birth date, May 18, 1969, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ty Franck’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ty Franck's date-only chart is Sun opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ty Franck combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Ty Franck’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Ty Franck’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb
Ty Franck’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° orb
Ty Franck’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ty Franck’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°50′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 1°42′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 13°11′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.1°
Ty Franck’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Ty Franck’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.3°
More people like Ty Franck
Other screenwriters
- Sean Bridgers1968
- Nick Moran1969
- Eric Bana1968
- Julie Delpy1969
- Guy Ritchie1968
- David Lindsay-Abaire1969
Born in United States
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More charts like Ty Franck’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Mohamed BambaAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Domantas SabonisLithuanian basketball player (born 1996)
- Mohamed DiawaraFrench basketball player (born 2005)
Born in Rooster years
- Simon BakerAustralian actor and director
- Tyler PerryAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Ellen PompeoAmerican actress
Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Chow Yun-fat1955
- Teresa Giudice1972
- Travis Hunter2003
- Emma Navarro2001
- Theodor Loos1883
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Sarah HylandAmerican actress and singer
- Kelsey GrammerAmerican actor
- Debbie GibsonAmerican singer and actress
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- James BrownAmerican musician
- Steven WeinbergAmerican theoretical physicist
- Renée ZellwegerAmerican actress
- Arno Allan PenziasGerman-born American physicist
Other Tidal Guardians
- Aaron DonaldAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Alaric Jacksonfootball player (born 1998)
- Kevin GivensAmerican football defensive tackle
- Osa OdighizuwaAmerican football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Vincent O'SullivanNew Zealand writer
- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- James StillAmerican poet from Alabama
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Ty Franck’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ty Franck’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18608460 (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 User:Elf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ty Franck at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ty Franck.
Quick answers about Ty Franck’s chart
- How old is Ty Franck?
- Ty Franck is 57 years old, born May 18, 1969 in Portland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ty Franck?
- Ty Franck is a Taurus: born May 18, 1969, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Ty Franck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1969 birth.
- What is Ty Franck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ty Franck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ty Franck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ty Franck's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
