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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Alexei
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 1961
2021
its peak year
US records hold Alexei from 1961 onward, though not for 1940 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2021 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alexei’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alexei’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Alexei apart
Alexei Panshin took the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1967, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as cardiac arrest.
On the family side, Alexei Panshin was married Cory Panshin.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Alexei Panshin: Writers from Lansing, Michigan, American science fiction critics and Hugo Award-winning fan writers.
Mila Kunis (1983) and Halle Berry (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (1990), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1969) and Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (1967)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
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. Working below.
Where Alexei sits
Six lines
Alexei’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Alexei Panshin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lansing 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 Lansing that night
Computed for 42.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lansing was Vega, in Lyra, 81.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lansing at all: they sit past the −47.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lansing, United States
The death is recorded at Pennsylvania, United States in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alexei Panshin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alexei's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No Air planets
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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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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Capricorn 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
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
stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 7°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°30′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 4°29′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Alexei’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alexei’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
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Fellow Leo suns
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Born in Dragon years
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- Famke JanssenDutch actress
- Wynonna JuddAmerican country singer (born 1964)
Also born on August 14
- Mila Kunis1983
- Halle Berry1966
- Jay-Jay Okocha1973
- Doechii1998
- Yoo Jae-suk1972
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Charles NicolleFrench microbiologist
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
- Roger GuilleminFrench-American neuroscientist
Other Leo Dragon charts
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- Andy WarholAmerican artist, film director, and producer
- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
- Haile Selassie IEmperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Frankie Delgadomexican-American actor and producer
- Phoebe DynevorEnglish actress
- Brett FavreAmerican football player (born 1969)
- Tan FranceBritish-American fashion designer and television personality
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Alexei’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alexei’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2305628 (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 Alexei Panshin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexei Panshin.
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.
- 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 was Alexei Panshin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alexei Panshin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
