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Zach Weinersmith

Zach Weinersmith (born March 5, 1982, Easton, United States), aged 44, is an American cartoonist. Weinersmith is best known for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Weinersmith's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.

Zach Weinersmith’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Zach Weinersmith’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Zach in the U.S.?

#2515

US rank in 2025

~2,804

Americans share it since 1913

2007

its peak year

Zach ranked 1,813th in 1982, the year of this birth, with 32 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Zach’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

2

Soul Urge · closeness

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on Z (8) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Zach’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink

The record

What sets Zach apart

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Eva Mendes (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Zach, according to the stars

Core essence

Zach feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Zach is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Zach 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 Zach needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Zach wants to be loved

Zach wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Zach be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Zach creates

How Zach 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. Zach 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: Zach is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Zach is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Zach leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Zach fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Zach's birth date. Working below.

Where Zach sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Zach

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Zach

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Zach

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Zach

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Zach

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Zach

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over Easton that night

Computed for 40.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Easton at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Gemini.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 83% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.

How unusual Zach's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No Earth planets · 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.

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Zach Weinersmith in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Zach Weinersmith's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 5, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Zach Weinersmith was born on March 5, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Zach Weinersmith's birth date, March 5, 1982, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Zach’s chart

Zach’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.8° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.4° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3.2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.6° orbSun in Pisces · 14°48′☉14°Moon in Cancer · 21°18′☽21°Mercury in Aquarius · 18°56′☿18°Venus in Aquarius · 2°05′♀2°Mars in Libra · 18°07′ · retrograde♂℞18°Jupiter in Scorpio · 10°11′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Libra · 21°18′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Sagittarius · 4°37′♅4°Neptune in Sagittarius · 26°53′♆26°Pluto in Libra · 26°35′ · retrograde♇℞26°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.1° to 1.5° orb

    Zach’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.7° to 3.0° orb

    Zach’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.2° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Zach’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 18°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 25°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 26°35′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 25°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Pluto 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.5°

Zach’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Zach’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 biquintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.7°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.7°

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Zach’s cards

Computed from March 5, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Zach’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3574507 (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 Christina Xu from Cambridge, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Zach Weinersmith at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zach Weinersmith.

Quick answers about Zach Weinersmith’s chart

How old is Zach Weinersmith?
Zach Weinersmith is 44 years old, born March 5, 1982 in Easton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Zach Weinersmith?
Zach Weinersmith is a Pisces: born March 5, 1982, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Zach Weinersmith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 5, 1982 birth.
What is Zach Weinersmith's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Zach Weinersmith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Zach Weinersmith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Zach Weinersmith's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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