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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Annie
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
Of the names registered in 1945, Annie came 69th among girls and 1,297th among boys, carried by 3,741 American girls and 26 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Annie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Annie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Annie apart
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Annie sits
Six lines
Annie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Annie Dillard
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Pittsburgh at all: they sit past the −49.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 88% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.
How unusual Annie's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableUranussextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 27°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 29°26′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 8°31′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°27′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Annie’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Annie’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.
- 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°
More people like Annie
Other writers
- Patrick Modiano1945
- Gerrit Komrij1944
- Janet Kagan1946
- Stephen Greenblatt1943
- Daniel Yergin1947
- John F. Burns1944
Born in United States
- Priscilla PresleyAmerican actress and businesswoman
- Mia FarrowAmerican actress
- Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.American Marine officier and attorney
- Dick DurbinUnited States Senator from Illinois
- John LithgowAmerican actor
- George F. SmootAmerican astrophysicist and cosmologist
More charts like Annie’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Zyon McCollumAmerican football player
- Darrell Luter Jr.American football player (born 2000)
- Dare OgunbowaleAmerican football player (born 1994)
Born in Rooster years
- Clare CrawleyAmerican television personality
- Todd Chrisleystar of the reality show Chrisley Knows Best
- Emilie de RavinAustralian actress (born 1981)
Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
- Ana de Armas1988
- Travis Scott1991
- Jane Campion1954
- Kunal Nayyar1981
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- François MauriacFrench writer
- Konrad LorenzAustrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
- Martin Lewis PerlAmerican scientist
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- Zara TindallBritish Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
- Jamie-Lynn SiglerAmerican actress (born 1981)
- Iker CasillasSpanish association football player
- Justin ThomasAmerican golfer
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Edward S. MontgomeryAmerican journalist
- Stephen KurkjianAmerican journalist
- Deanne FitzmauriceAmerican photographer
- Roy GutmanAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Randy SpellingAmerican actor
- Jon VoightAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Mike VrabelAmerican football player and coach (born 1975)
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
Computed from April 30, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Annie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176558 (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.
The same Annie Dillard at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Annie Dillard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Annie Dillard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
