Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer (born July 26, 1973, Topeka, United States), aged 53, is an American poet and essayist. Boyer is best known for The Undying, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate and Garments Against Women. Boyer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Anne Boyer’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Anne
Anne Boyer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Anne in the U.S.?
#619
US rank in 2025
~325,954
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
In 1973, 2,453 American girls and 8 boys were registered Anne — 122nd among girls and 3,710th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (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
Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, 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 Anne apart
Garments Against Women, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate and The Undying. That is the work the name is attached to.
Anne Boyer was taught at Salina High School South and Wichita State University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Wichita State University alumni, People from Salina, Kansas and Kansas City Art Institute faculty.
Kate Beckinsale 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.
- Known for
- Garments Against Women, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate and The Undying
- Educated at
- Salina High School South and Wichita State University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2020)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Anne, according to the stars
Core essence
Anne is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Anne is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Anne processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Anne needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Anne wants to be loved
Anne wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Anne and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Anne creates
How Anne makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Anne creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Anne 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Anne is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Anne gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Anne's birth date. Working below.
Where Anne sits
Six lines
Anne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Anne Boyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Topeka 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 Topeka that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Topeka at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Topeka sits at 39.0°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 −51.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Anne's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Anne Boyer's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Anne Boyer was born on July 26, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Anne Boyer's birth date, July 26, 1973, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Anne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anne Boyer's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Anne Boyer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Anne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Anne’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
Anne’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars1.5° to 2.4° orb
Anne’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.4° to 5.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Anne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°54′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 17°21′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°42′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres square Venus 2.1°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.8°
Anne’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Anne’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Uranus, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Born the same day as Anne
Kate Beckinsale was born on July 26, 1973 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Topeka sits at 39.0°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Anne
Other writers
- Shaun Tan1974
- Kristi Noem1971
- Ada Limón1976
- Andrea Elliott1972
- Aravind Adiga1974
- Rebecca Roanhorse1971
Born in United States
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- Eddie CibrianAmerican actor (born 1973)
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
- Brian Austin GreenAmerican actor
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Jack McBrayerAmerican actor
More charts like Anne’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Josh RadnorAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- Taika WaititiNew Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
- Simon BakerAustralian actor and director
Born in Ox years
- Bill HudsonAmerican musician and actor
- Olivia HoltAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)
- Tess HollidayAmerican plus-size model
Also born on July 26
- Carl Jung1875
- Sandra Bullock1964
- Jacinda Ardern1980
- Mick Jagger1943
- Jason Statham1967
- John Howard1939
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Colin FarrellIrish actor
- Olivia WildeAmerican actress and film director
- Kaley CuocoAmerican actress and producer
Other Leo Ox charts
- John KeyPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
- Javier ZanettiArgentine association football player
- Antonio ValenciaPortughez association football player
- Kristen WiigAmerican actress and comedian
Other Tidal Scholars
- Yvon MvogoSwiss association football player
- Hans VanakenBelgian footballer (born 1992)
- Gregor KobelSwiss footballer (born 1997)
- Kaishu SanoJapanese association football player
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Rishi SunakFormer Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 and Leader of the Conservative Party
- Usain BoltJamaican sprinter
- Richard DawkinsEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Anne’s cards
Computed from July 26, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23050230 (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 Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anne Boyer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anne Boyer.
Quick answers about Anne Boyer’s chart
- How old is Anne Boyer?
- Anne Boyer is 53 years old, born July 26, 1973 in Topeka, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Anne Boyer?
- Anne Boyer is a Leo: born July 26, 1973, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Anne Boyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1973 birth.
- What is Anne Boyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Anne Boyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Anne Boyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Anne Boyer's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
