Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941, Minneapolis, United States), aged 84, is an American novelist. Tyler is best known for A Spool of Blue Thread, The Tin Can Tree and The Clock Winder. Tyler's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Anne Tyler’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Anne Tyler’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Anne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Anne, according to the stars
Core essence
Anne does not do surface. The core of Anne is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Anne is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Anne is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Anne needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Anne wants to be loved
Anne wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Anne and watch them fall for you again.
How Anne creates
How Anne makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Anne creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Anne is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Anne Tyler at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Anne Tyler's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 25, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Anne Tyler was born on October 25, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Anne Tyler's birth date, October 25, 1941, 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 Tyler's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- Anne Tyler combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Anne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Anne Tyler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Capricorn 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.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.3° orb
Anne’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.7° orb
Anne’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
Anne’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 4.2° orb
Anne’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.5° orb
Anne’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsquarePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
Anne’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.6° orb
Anne’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineMars3.7° to 5.0° orb
Anne’s affections flow straight into their drive.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.5° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.8° to 17.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 6.6° to 20.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 13°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Anne performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°21′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Anne caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLibra 17°15′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Anne is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 7°09′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Anne needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 25°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Anne is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.8°
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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Anne is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anne Tyler, 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 October 25, 1941, 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 Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Anne Tyler, 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 Q235615, 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.
The same Anne Tyler at Wikipedia, annetyler.com and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anne Tyler.
Quick answers about Anne Tyler’s chart
- How old is Anne Tyler?
- Anne Tyler is 84 years old, born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Anne Tyler?
- Anne Tyler is a Scorpio: born October 25, 1941, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Anne Tyler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1941 birth.
- What time was Anne Tyler 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 is Anne Tyler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 25, 1941 birth date.
- What is Anne Tyler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 25, 1941 birth date.
- Where is Anne Tyler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Anne Tyler's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
