Alice Bradley Sheldon
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born August 24, 1915, Chicago, United States; died 1987), was an American science fiction writer. Sheldon is best remembered for Star Songs of an Old Primate, Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions and Houston, Houston, Do You Read?. Sheldon's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Nebula Award for Best Novelette and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Alice Bradley Sheldon’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Alice
How common is the name Alice in the U.S.?
#65
US rank in 2025
~590,106
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1915, Alice came 13th among girls and 1,267th among boys, carried by 10,525 American girls and 27 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alice’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Forest
The record
What sets Alice apart
Jorge Luis Borges (1899) and Paulo Coelho (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Alice, according to the stars
How Alice wants to be loved
Alice 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 Alice openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Alice creates
How Alice 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. Alice 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: Alice is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Alice is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alice does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Alice's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 84.7° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.
How unusual Alice's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →Leo or Virgo Sun
Alice Bradley Sheldon was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Alice Bradley Sheldon was born on August 24, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Alice Bradley Sheldon's birth date, August 24, 1915, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Alice’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alice Bradley Sheldon's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
Alice’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.8° orb
Alice’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.5° to 3.3° orb
Alice’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsextilePluto2.1° to 3.0° orb
Alice’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 6.0° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Alice’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°21′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°24′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres square Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.5°
Alice’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto
Configurations in Alice’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.
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
More people like Alice
Other psychologists
- Carl Jung1875
- Edvard Moser1962
- May-Britt Moser1963
Born in United States
- Frank SinatraAmerican singer and actor
- Herman WoukAmerican writer
- Clifford ShullAmerican physicist
- Robert HofstadterAmerican physicist and Nobel laureate
- Eli WallachAmerican actor
- Thomas Huckle WellerAmerican virologist
More charts like Alice’s
Born in Rabbit years
- Valerie HarperAmerican actress
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- George HamiltonAmerican film and television actor
Also born on August 24
- Jorge Luis Borges1899
- Paulo Coelho1947
- Rupert Grint1988
- Dave Chappelle1973
- Karoline Leavitt1997
- Funke Akindele-Bello1977
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Jill ZarinAmerican socialite and television personality (born 1963)
- Hudson WilliamsCanadian actor (born 2001)
- Xavi HernándezSpanish footballer and manager (born 1980)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Frank HerbertAmerican writer
- Dean ParisotAmerican film and television director
- Adrian TchaikovskyBritish fantasy and science fiction author
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Alice’s cards
Computed from August 24, 1915. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234928 (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 Chicago Tribune (work-for-hire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alice Bradley Sheldon at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Alice Bradley Sheldon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alice Bradley Sheldon?
- Alice Bradley Sheldon was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Alice Bradley Sheldon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1915 birth.
- What was Alice Bradley Sheldon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alice Bradley Sheldon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alice Bradley Sheldon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alice Bradley Sheldon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
