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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Alice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Alice Bradley Sheldon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
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
Alice’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Alice’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
Alice’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
Alice’s growth grinds against their depths.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Alice absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°21′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Alice is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 25°24′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Alice is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Alice is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Alice that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Alice’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Alice is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Alice’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alice Bradley Sheldon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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- Hudson WilliamsCanadian actor (born 2001)
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Alice’s cards
Every card is computed from August 24, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Alice Bradley Sheldon, 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
Alice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234928, 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.
Portrait by Chicago Tribune (work-for-hire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alice Bradley Sheldon at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- 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 time was Alice Bradley Sheldon 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 Alice Bradley Sheldon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 24, 1915 birth date.
- What was Alice Bradley Sheldon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 24, 1915 birth date.
- 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.
