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Allen Steele

Allen Steele (born January 19, 1958, Nashville, United States), aged 68, is an American science fiction writer. Steele is best known for Coyote. Steele's honours include Seiun Awards, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Allen Steele’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Allen Steele’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Allen in the U.S.?

#578

US rank in 2025

~273,662

Americans share it since 1880

1951

its peak year

In 1958, 4,527 American boys and 24 girls were registered Allen — 92nd among boys and 2,323rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Allen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Allen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The record

What sets Allen apart

Dolly Parton (1946) and Janis Joplin (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Allen, according to the stars

Core essence

Allen is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Allen is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Allen wants to be loved

Allen wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Allen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Allen creates

How Allen 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. Allen 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: Allen is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Allen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Allen has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Allen's birth date. Working below.

Where Allen sits

Six lines

Allen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Allen

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Allen

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Allen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Allen

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Allen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Allen

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Allen Steele

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nashville on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Allen’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 81.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Elnath →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Nashville that night

Computed for 36.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Nashville at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Nashville sits at 36.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.

How unusual Allen's chart is

Chart pattern score

35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · Venus retrograde · 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.

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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Allen Steele's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 19, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Allen Steele was born on January 19, 1958, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Allen Steele's birth date, January 19, 1958, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Allen’s chart

Allen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.4° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 29°10′☉29°Moon in Capricorn · 27°11′☽27°Mercury in Capricorn · 5°35′☿5°Venus in Aquarius · 13°32′ · retrograde♀℞13°Mars in Sagittarius · 19°20′♂19°Jupiter in Scorpio · 0°33′♃0°Saturn in Sagittarius · 21°28′♄21°Uranus in Leo · 10°04′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Scorpio · 4°42′♆4°Pluto in Virgo · 1°49′ · retrograde♇℞1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 7.8° orb

    Allen’s core identity and feelings act as one.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Allen’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Allen’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus3.2° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Allen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 16°09′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 21°40′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 6°24′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 13°19′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Venus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.7°

Allen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Allen’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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.4°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.8°

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Allen’s cards

Computed from January 19, 1958. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Allen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1193871 (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 Geoffrey.landis at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Allen Steele at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Allen Steele.

Quick answers about Allen Steele’s chart

How old is Allen Steele?
Allen Steele is 68 years old, born January 19, 1958 in Nashville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Allen Steele?
Allen Steele is a Capricorn: born January 19, 1958, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Allen Steele's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 19, 1958 birth.
What is Allen Steele's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Allen Steele's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Allen Steele's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Allen Steele's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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