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Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949, Queens, United States), aged 77, is an American author and producer. Druyan's honours include Richard Dawkins Award, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Ann Druyan’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Ann Druyan’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#1076

US rank in 2025

~471,625

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

The SSA recorded 7,870 American girls and 15 boys named Ann in 1949: 44th among girls and 1,943rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ann’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

22

Expression · building at scale

5

Soul Urge · freedom

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

Ann’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Ann apart

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1998, when Ann Druyan was 49.

The schooling ran through Jamaica High School.

Ann Druyan was married Carl Sagan and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Ann Druyan under Sagan family, Carl Sagan and Jewish skeptics.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831) and Chris Evans (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Jamaica High School
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1998), honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2021) and Richard Dawkins Award (2004)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
32

What the chart says

Ann, according to the stars

Core essence

Ann is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Ann needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Ann wants to be loved

Ann 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. Ann gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Ann creates

How Ann makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Ann builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Ann is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ann is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ann scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Ann's birth date. Working below.

Where Ann sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ann

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ann

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

PrivateExpressive
Ann

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ann

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

PracticalVisionary
Ann

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ann

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ann Druyan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Queens was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.2° up.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Queens sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Queens at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 89% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Ann's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 planets at a critical degree

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

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Ann Druyan's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Ann Druyan was born on June 13, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Ann Druyan's birth date, June 13, 1949, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Ann’s chart

Ann’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.8° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 5.5° orbSun in Gemini · 22°17′☉22°Moon in Capricorn · 27°03′☽27°Mercury in Gemini · 8°52′ · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Cancer · 7°37′♀7°Mars in Gemini · 2°35′♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 1°16′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Virgo · 0°54′♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 0°12′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 12°25′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Leo · 14°40′♇14°

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

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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

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.7° orb

    Ann’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb

    Ann’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Ann’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.8° to 8.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 5.3° to 18.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionUranusorb from 7.5° to 8.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 4°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 28°41′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 20°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 10°43′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.5°
  • Eros trine Sun 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.9°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.5°

Ann’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Ann’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.4°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°

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Ann’s cards

Computed from June 13, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ann’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q27167 (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 Bob Lee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ann Druyan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ann Druyan.

Quick answers about Ann Druyan’s chart

How old is Ann Druyan?
Ann Druyan is 77 years old, born June 13, 1949 in Queens, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ann Druyan?
Ann Druyan is a Gemini: born June 13, 1949, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Ann Druyan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1949 birth.
What is Ann Druyan's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Ann Druyan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ann Druyan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ann Druyan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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