Alexei Panshin
Alexei Panshin (born August 14, 1940, Lansing, United States; died 2022), was an American writer and critic. Panshin's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Alexei Panshin’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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Alexei Panshin’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Alexei in the U.S.?
#3245
US rank in 2025
~1,486
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Alexei’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Alexei, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexei is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alexei is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Alexei is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Alexei needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Alexei wants to be loved
Alexei wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Alexei gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Alexei creates
How Alexei makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Alexei creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexei is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Alexei is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Alexei 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 Alexei's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Alexei Panshin in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Alexei Panshin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Alexei Panshin was born on August 14, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Alexei Panshin's birth date, August 14, 1940, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Alexei’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alexei Panshin's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alexei Panshin combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Alexei’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alexei Panshin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.3° orb
Alexei’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.3° orb
Alexei’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus0.5° to 1.1° orb
Alexei’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.0° orb
Alexei’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
Alexei’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb
Alexei’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.6° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 5.6° to 18.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareJupiterorb from 6.3° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Alexei’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Alexei is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLibra 7°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Alexei is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°30′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Alexei attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 4°29′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Alexei feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Alexei carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres square Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 1.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Alexei’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Alexei is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Alexei’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alexei Panshin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alexei’s cards
Every card is computed from August 14, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alexei Panshin, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Alexei’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2305628, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Alexei Panshin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Alexei Panshin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alexei Panshin?
- Alexei Panshin was a Leo: born August 14, 1940, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
- What was Alexei Panshin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1940 birth.
- What time was Alexei Panshin born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Alexei Panshin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 14, 1940 birth date.
- What was Alexei Panshin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 14, 1940 birth date.
- Where was Alexei Panshin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alexei Panshin's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
