Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926, Cambridge, United States; died 2011), was an American-Irish novelist. McCaffrey is best remembered for Restoree, The Ship Who Sang and Dragonsdawn. McCaffrey's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Anne McCaffrey’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Anne McCaffrey’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anne in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~325,954
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
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Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Anne, according to the stars
Core essence
Anne leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Anne is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Anne feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Anne needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Anne wants to be loved
Anne 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 Anne be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Anne creates
How Anne makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Anne creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anne is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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. Anne 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 Anne's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Anne McCaffrey's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 1, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Anne McCaffrey's birth date, April 1, 1926, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Anne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anne McCaffrey's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Anne McCaffrey combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Anne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Anne McCaffrey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.8° orb
Anne’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.3° to 1.2° orb
Anne’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Anne’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquarePluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
Anne’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.5° orb
Anne’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.6° orb
Anne’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
Anne’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.2° orb
Anne’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
Anne’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.6° to 4.4° orb
Anne’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
Anne’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb
Anne’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Anne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 26°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Anne may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 13°00′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Anne is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°03′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Anne is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°37′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Anne is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Anne is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.8°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.5°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Anne’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Anne is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Anne’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anne McCaffrey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Anne’s cards
Every card is computed from April 1, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Anne McCaffrey, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233046, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anne McCaffrey at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Anne McCaffrey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anne McCaffrey?
- Anne McCaffrey was an Aries: born April 1, 1926, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Anne McCaffrey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 1, 1926 birth.
- What time was Anne McCaffrey born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Anne McCaffrey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 1, 1926 birth date.
- What was Anne McCaffrey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 1, 1926 birth date.
- Where was Anne McCaffrey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anne McCaffrey's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
