Vaughn Bodē
Vaughn Bodē (born July 22, 1941, Utica, United States; died 1975), was an American underground comics and graphic design artist. Bodē is best remembered for Cobalt 60. Bodē's honours include Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Yellow Kid Award and Inkpot Award.
Vaughn Bodē’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Vaughn
Vaughn Bodē’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Vaughn in the U.S.?
#1153
US rank in 2025
~22,484
Americans share it since 1881
1949
its peak year
The SSA recorded 131 American boys and 10 girls named Vaughn in 1941: 519th among boys and 3,018th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vaughn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on V (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vaughn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Vaughn apart
The record Vaughn Bodē is measured by: Cobalt 60.
Cause of death is recorded as erotic asphyxiation.
On the family side, Vaughn Bodē was raised one child.
David M. Kennedy shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Cobalt 60
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (1975), Yellow Kid Award (1974) and Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist (1969)
- Cause of death
- erotic asphyxiation
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Vaughn, according to the stars
Core essence
Vaughn feels the room before entering it. The core of Vaughn is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Vaughn, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Vaughn is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Vaughn needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Vaughn wants to be loved
Vaughn wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Vaughn openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Vaughn creates
How Vaughn makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Vaughn creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Vaughn is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Vaughn is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Vaughn gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Vaughn's birth date. Working below.
Where Vaughn sits
Six lines
Vaughn’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Vaughn Bodē
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Utica 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 Utica that night
Computed for 43.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Utica at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 17.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Utica sits at 43.1°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 Utica at all: they sit past the −46.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.
How unusual Vaughn's chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Vaughn Bodē's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Vaughn Bodē was born on July 22, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Vaughn Bodē's birth date, July 22, 1941, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Vaughn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vaughn Bodē's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Vaughn Bodē combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Vaughn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Vaughn’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 6.0° orb
Vaughn’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Vaughn’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Vaughn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 4°06′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°05′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°45′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.3°
Vaughn’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Vaughn’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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
Born the same day as Vaughn
David M. Kennedy was born on July 22, 1941 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Utica sits at 43.1°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Vaughn
Other comics artists
- Jeff MacNelly1947
- Phil Foglio1956
Born in United States
- David GreenAmerican businessman, founder of Hobby Lobby, born 1941
- Alfred G. GilmanAmerican pharmacologist
- Earl BoenAmerican actor
- Karl Barry SharplessAmerican chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
- Sally KirklandAmerican actress, film producer, and activist
- Les PayneAmerican journalist
More charts like Vaughn’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Samuel Eliot MorisonUnited States admiral and historian
- Siddhartha MukherjeeIndian-American physician and writer (born 1970)
- Bernard L. SteinAmerican journalist
Born in Snake years
- Black SherifGhanaian singer and rapper
- Rowan BlanchardAmerican actress
- Mo'ne DavisAmerican baseball and softball player
Also born on July 22
- Willem Dafoe1955
- John Leguizamo1964
- Scott Dixon1980
- Selena Gomez1992
- Danny Glover1946
- Jonathan Owens1995
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Conor KennedyAmerican activist, eldest child of RFK Jr and Mary Richardson (1994)
- Spike LeeAmerican filmmaker (born 1957)
- Jason MrazAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Álex BaenaSpanish footballer (born 2001)
- Evann GuessandIvorian-French footballer (born 2001)
- Folarin BalogunAmerican footballer (born 2001)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Leonardo SbaragliaArgentine actor
- Charles LaughtonBritish-American actor
- Maxim GaudetteCanadian actor
- Elia KazanAmerican director and actor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- René ThomFrench mathematician
- Alain ConnesFrench mathematician
- Stephen SmaleAmerican mathematician
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Vaughn’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vaughn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2004726 (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.
The same Vaughn Bodē 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 Vaughn Bodē.
Quick answers about Vaughn Bodē’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vaughn Bodē?
- Vaughn Bodē was a Cancer: born July 22, 1941, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Vaughn Bodē's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1941 birth.
- What was Vaughn Bodē's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Vaughn Bodē's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Vaughn Bodē's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vaughn Bodē's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
