One of the sixty AsterNym identities
✦ The Tidal Visionary
Water × Cardinal Sun × Intuitive plane
Your instincts may arrive early and strongly. Treat them as valuable signals to investigate rather than guarantees about what will happen.
Your central tension
Your instincts arrive early and strongly, and they are signals, not verdicts.
The Visionary perceives ahead; Water perceives in currents. So your intuitions come as feelings about where things are moving, often accurate and rarely explainable. The tension is that a strong instinct feels like knowledge, and treating it as a signal to investigate is the discipline that keeps it useful.
The Tidal Visionary in detail
What you are unusually good at
Sensing the current before it turns. You may notice a shift in a person or a situation while it is still underwater, and your early impressions tend to be worth taking seriously, once they have been checked.
Where this combination gets stuck
Doubting in public what you already feel in private, then acting on a feeling as if it were proof. The Visionary knew; Water felt it. Neither is evidence, and both can be right.
At work
Counselling, strategy, design research, creative direction, any role where the useful insight is felt before it is seen. Roles that need every claim justified immediately may frighten you into silence.
In relationships
You may sense a great deal about a partner and either say nothing or say all of it. Saying some, as an impression, tends to serve you both.
When stressed
The signals get louder and the confidence to act on them goes under. Sensitivity rises; agency sinks.
What restores you
One instinct investigated and found sound. The Tidal Visionary is restored by a feeling that turned out to be information.
Where this identity comes from
Tidal: the Water family
The element comes from the BaZi Day Master, the heavenly stem of the day pillar, the point a whole BaZi chart is read against. Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles.
A full BaZi Day Master is one of ten heavenly stems, a yin or yang form of each element. For the core AsterNym identity, the ten Day Masters are grouped into their five elemental families; your own reading elsewhere on the site keeps the yin or yang.
The Visionary: Cardinal Sun, intuitive plane
The noun comes from two traditions at once. The Visionary sees it first and says so. Cardinal signs open a season, so this half of the name is read as the instinct to begin: to make the first move and accept that beginning is a different skill from finishing. The intuitive plane puts the work in what is sensed before it can be argued: pattern, hunch and the thing noticed early.
AsterNym reduces the month, the day and the digit-sum of the year separately, keeping 11, 22 or 33 whenever one of those totals lands on it, then adds the three results and reduces once more with the same rule. That is why the framework has twelve paths rather than nine. The full method.
The formula, and what in it is ours
- Element
- Day Master element, the heavenly stem of the day pillar in the Chinese Four Pillars. Five values, and real birthdays fall into them almost exactly evenly
- Modality
- The modality of your Sun sign, from Hellenistic astrology: Cardinal signs begin a season, Fixed signs hold it, Mutable signs hand it on. Three values, one third each
- Plane
- The plane of your Life Path, from American numerology: physical, mental, emotional or intuitive. Four values
- Our call, not a tradition's
- Grouping the Life Path numbers into four planes is a common convention in numerological writing rather than a canonical one, and different authors group them differently. Placing 22 in the physical plane and 33 in the emotional plane is AsterNym's own call, made because 22 is read as the master builder and 33 as the master teacher
- Distribution
- Measured over 23,298 birthdays from 1950 to 2015: every one of the sixty cells is reachable, the commonest holds 2.00% and the rarest 1.44%, a spread of 1.4 times. Formula v1 ran at 16 times, with ten cells below half their fair share
- No birth time needed
- None of the three axes needs a birth time. That is deliberate: about one celebrity chart in nine on this site has one
Formula asternym-identity-v2 · plane mapping asternym-life-path-plane-v1. The plane grouping is 4, 5 and 22 physical; 1 and 8 mental; 2, 3, 6 and 33 emotional; 7, 9 and 11 intuitive.
The ingredients come from established traditions. The sixty-identity framework, the family names and these interpretations are AsterNym’s own synthesis.
Famous Tidal Visionaries
Public figures whose published birth records produce this same identity:
- Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFrench writer and aviator
- Brigitte BardotFrench actress, singer, animal rights activist
- Günter GrassGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer
- Michelle BacheletPresident of Chile from
- Anthony HopkinsWelsh–American actor and director