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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Anne
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.?
#619
US rank in 2025
~325,954
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
In 1926, 3,109 American girls and 6 boys were registered Anne — 86th among girls and 3,719th 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
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
The record
What sets Anne apart
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940) and Milan Kundera (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Anne sits
Six lines
Anne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 McCaffrey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cambridge 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 Cambridge that night
Computed for 42.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cambridge was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Cambridge sits at 42.4°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 Cambridge at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 87% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
How unusual Anne's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · No Earth planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.2° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 26°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 13°00′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°03′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°37′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Anne’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Anne’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Fellow Aries suns
- Karlo MatkovićBosnian basketball player
- Wendell Carter Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
- Maxime RaynaudFrench basketball player (born 2003)
Born in Tiger years
- Dwight D. Eisenhowerpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961
- Anne EnrightIrish writer (born 1962)
- Aravind AdigaIndian journalist and author
Also born on April 1
- Wangari Muta Maathai1940
- Milan Kundera1929
- Logan Paul1995
- Zhang Yiming1983
- Susan Boyle1961
- Jon Gosselin1977
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Freddie HighmoreEnglish actor
- Diego LunaMexican actor
- Timothy OlyphantAmerican actor
Other Aries Tiger charts
- Dario FoItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist
- William WordsworthEnglish Romantic poet
- Melba BoydAmerican poet
- Nnedi OkoraforNigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and comics (born 1974)
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Norman ReedusAmerican actor
- Wynton RuferNew Zealand association football player
- Jemaine ClementNew Zealand actor and musician
- Jeff BuckleyAmerican musician
Famous people with Life Path 5
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Anne’s cards
Computed from April 1, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233046 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anne McCaffrey.
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.
- 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 was Anne McCaffrey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anne McCaffrey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
