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Anna Burns

Anna Burns (born March 7, 1962, Belfast, United Kingdom), aged 64, is a Northern Irish writer. Burns's honours include Booker Prize, Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and honorary doctorate.

Anna Burns’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Anna Burns’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#107

US rank in 2025

~917,615

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 4,430 American girls and 14 boys named Anna in 1962: 100th among girls and 2,189th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anna’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Anna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Anna apart

The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize came in 2001, when Anna Burns was 39.

Study took Anna Burns to St Gemma's High School.

Wikipedia files Anna Burns under Women novelists from Northern Ireland, Writers from Belfast and Booker Prize winners.

Ayrat Şäymief shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
St Gemma's High School
Awards
Booker Prize (2018), Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (2001) and honorary doctorate (2023)
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
29

What the chart says

Anna, according to the stars

Core essence

Anna feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Anna is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Anna wants to be loved

Anna wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Anna, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Anna creates

How Anna 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. Anna 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: Anna is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Anna is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Anna leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Anna goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Anna's birth date. Working below.

Where Anna sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Anna

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anna

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

PrivateExpressive
Anna

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anna

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

PracticalVisionary
Anna

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anna

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Anna Burns

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

Anna’s birth-night reference starMuscidayellow · Ursa MajorMuscida, in Ursa Major. A yellow star, 80.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Muscida →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 10.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Belfast that night

Computed for 54.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Belfast at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 54.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Belfast at all: they sit past the −35.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.

How unusual Anna's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · 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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Anna Burns in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Anna Burns's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 7, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Anna Burns was born on March 7, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Anna Burns's birth date, March 7, 1962, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Anna’s chart

Anna’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 9° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.5° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.7° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 5.6° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 6.2° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 6.2° orbSun in Pisces · 16°26′☉16°Moon in Aries · 1°34′☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 19°42′☿19°Venus in Pisces · 25°56′♀25°Mars in Aquarius · 26°12′♂26°Jupiter in Aquarius · 25°51′♃25°Saturn in Aquarius · 7°11′♄7°Uranus in Leo · 27°44′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°22′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 8°39′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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

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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

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 0.6° orb

    Anna’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus1.1° to 1.9° orb

    Anna’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.7° to 2.0° orb

    Anna’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.1° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionPlutoorb from 7.3° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 7°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 24°26′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 16°47′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°41′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 1.6°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.5°

Anna’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anna’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.8°

Born the same day as Anna

Ayrat Şäymief was born on March 7, 1962 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Belfast, at 54.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Anna’s cards

Computed from March 7, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4766889 (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 DublinLibrarian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anna Burns at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anna Burns.

Quick answers about Anna Burns’s chart

How old is Anna Burns?
Anna Burns is 64 years old, born March 7, 1962 in Belfast, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Anna Burns?
Anna Burns is a Pisces: born March 7, 1962, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Anna Burns's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 7, 1962 birth.
What is Anna Burns's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Anna Burns's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anna Burns's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anna Burns's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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