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Anne Enright

Anne Enright (born October 11, 1962, Dublin, Ireland), aged 64, is an Irish writer (born 1962). Enright is best known for The Gathering. Enright's honours include Booker Prize, Royal Irish Academy and Encore Award.

Anne Enright’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Anne Enright’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

The SSA recorded 5,272 American girls and 17 boys named Anne in 1962: 83rd among girls and 1,966th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anne’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

11

Soul Urge · insight

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

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 Anne apart

The record Anne Enright is measured by: The Gathering.

Anne Enright was taught at Pearson College UWC and University of East Anglia.

Joan Cusack 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
The Gathering
Educated at
Pearson College UWC, University of East Anglia and Trinity College, Dublin
Awards
Booker Prize (2007), Royal Irish Academy (2026) and Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (1991)
Nominated for
Booker Prize
Citizenship
Ireland
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
44

What the chart says

Anne, according to the stars

Core essence

Anne makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Anne is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Anne is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Anne needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Anne wants to be loved

Anne wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Anne even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Anne creates

How Anne makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Anne creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Anne 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 3 is the creative. Anne is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Anne does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Anne

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anne

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

PrivateExpressive
Anne

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anne

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Anne

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anne

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Computed for 53.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Dublin at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.

At 53.3°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 Dublin at all: they sit past the −36.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.

How unusual Anne's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets · 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.

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Anne Enright at a glance

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Anne Enright's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Anne Enright was born on October 11, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Anne Enright's birth date, October 11, 1962, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Anne’s chart

Anne’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 4.6° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 5.1° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.9° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 6.9° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 7.1° orbSun in Libra · 17°39′☉17°Moon in Pisces · 18°13′☽18°Mercury in Libra · 8°05′ · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Scorpio · 25°09′♀25°Mars in Cancer · 29°43′♂29°Jupiter in Pisces · 3°21′ · retrograde♃℞3°Saturn in Aquarius · 4°46′♄4°Uranus in Virgo · 3°41′♅3°Neptune in Scorpio · 12°17′♆12°Pluto in Virgo · 11°08′♇11°

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

    Anne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb

    Anne’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineMars4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.2° to 18.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 7.1° to 22.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 23°44′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 13°43′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 24°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°42′ (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 conjunction Mercury 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.9°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 2.6°

Anne’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

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

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Anne’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.

  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°

Born the same day as Anne

Joan Cusack was born on October 11, 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 Dublin, at 53.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Anne’s cards

Computed from October 11, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73176 (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 Hpschaefer, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anne Enright at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anne Enright.

Quick answers about Anne Enright’s chart

How old is Anne Enright?
Anne Enright is 64 years old, born October 11, 1962 in Dublin, Ireland.
What zodiac sign is Anne Enright?
Anne Enright is a Libra: born October 11, 1962, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Anne Enright's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1962 birth.
What is Anne Enright's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Anne Enright's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anne Enright's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anne Enright's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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