Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945, Pittsburgh, United States), aged 81, is an American writer (born 1945). Dillard is best known for The Maytrees, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Teaching a Stone to Talk. Dillard's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame and Bollingen Prize.
Annie Dillard’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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Annie Dillard’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Annie in the U.S.?
#182
US rank in 2025
~362,180
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Annie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Annie, according to the stars
Core essence
Annie is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Annie is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Annie is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Annie needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Annie wants to be loved
Annie wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Annie creates
How Annie makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Annie creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Annie is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Annie 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Annie slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Annie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Annie sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Annie Dillard's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Annie Dillard was born on April 30, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Annie Dillard's birth date, April 30, 1945, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Annie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Annie Dillard's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Annie Dillard combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Annie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Annie Dillard, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Sagittarius 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.9° orb
Annie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquarePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
Annie’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
Annie’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.0° to 3.8° orb
Annie’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Annie’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Annie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.2° orb
Annie’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
Annie’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Annie’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 27°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Annie turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 29°26′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Annie is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 8°31′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Annie loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°27′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Annie is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Annie that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Eros square Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°
- Eros sextile Uranus 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°).
Annie’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Annie is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Annie’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.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Annie Dillard, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on April 30
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Annie’s cards
Every card is computed from April 30, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Annie Dillard, 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
Annie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176558, 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 Annie Dillard at Wikipedia.
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 Annie Dillard.
Quick answers about Annie Dillard’s chart
- How old is Annie Dillard?
- Annie Dillard is 81 years old, born April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Annie Dillard?
- Annie Dillard is a Taurus: born April 30, 1945, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- What is Annie Dillard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1945 birth.
- What time was Annie Dillard 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 Annie Dillard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 30, 1945 birth date.
- What is Annie Dillard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 30, 1945 birth date.
- Where is Annie Dillard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Annie Dillard's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
