Alice Munro
Alice Munro (born Alice Ann Laidlaw; July 10, 1931, Wingham, Canada, 21:00; died 2024), was a Canadian writer. Munro is best remembered for Too Much Happiness, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You and Dear Life. Munro's honours include International Booker Prize, Lorne Pierce Medal and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
Alice Munro’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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Alice Munro’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
~590,106
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Alice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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What the chart says
Alice, according to the stars
Core essence
Alice feels the room before entering it. The core of Alice is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Alice, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Alice is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Alice needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Alice wants to be loved
Alice 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. Alice gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Alice creates
How Alice makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Alice creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Alice is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Alice is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Alice channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Alice's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Alice Munro's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Alice Munro's birth date, July 10, 1931, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Alice’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Alice Munro's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Saturn in the 1st house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Alice Munro's timed chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Alice Munro combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Alice’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
Alice’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsextileMarsseparating · 0.8° orb
Alice’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 0.8° orb
Alice’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb
Alice’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunsquareUranusapplying · 1.5° orb
Alice’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 1.6° orb
Alice’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineSaturnseparating · 1.8° orb
Alice’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 1.8° orb
Alice’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 2.1° orb
Alice’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.4° orb
Alice’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunconjunctionPlutoapplying · 2.6° orb
Alice’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb
Alice’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb
Alice’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileMoonseparating · 4.2° orb
Alice’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 4.9° orb
Alice’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°27′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alice building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 10°51′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Alice is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLibra 23°02′ · House 10
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.
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°47′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Alice is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°59′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Alice is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron conjunction Moon 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Ascendant 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.2°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.3°
- Eros square Pluto 2.7°
- Eros square Saturn 2.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 3.0°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn12 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury; angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Alice is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Kite · Moon, Mars, Saturn, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Moon, Mars, Saturn, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Alice’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 1 | Saturn | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 4 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 9 | Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 5 | Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 7 | Mercury | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | Mars, Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 7 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Alice
2 other people here were born on July 10, 1931, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Alice’s cards
Every card is computed from July 10, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Alice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234819, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 MacDowell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alice Munro 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 Munro’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alice Munro?
- Alice Munro was a Cancer: born July 10, 1931, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was Alice Munro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1931 birth.
- What time was Alice Munro born?
- 21:00 local time in Wingham, Canada, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Alice Munro's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 21:00 birth time in Wingham, Canada (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Alice Munro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the July 10, 1931 birth date.
- What was Alice Munro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 10, 1931 birth time.
- Where was Alice Munro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alice Munro's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
