Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx (born August 22, 1935, Norwich, United States), aged 91, is an American novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935). Proulx's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award and National Book Award.
Annie Proulx’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Annie
Annie Proulx’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 1935, Annie came 38th among girls and 894th among boys, carried by 4,849 American girls and 50 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Annie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
Annie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Annie apart
Annie Proulx took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992, at 57.
The classrooms behind this chart: Colby College and University of Vermont.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Annie Proulx: Novelists from Maine, Sir George Williams University alumni and Deering High School alumni.
Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dua Lipa (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Colby College, University of Vermont and Deering High School
- Awards
- National Book Award (1993), O. Henry Award (1998) and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Annie, according to the stars
Core essence
Annie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Annie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Annie processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Annie needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Annie wants to be loved
Annie wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Annie and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Annie creates
How Annie makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Annie 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: Annie is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Annie is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Annie runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 Annie Proulx
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norwich 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 Norwich that night
Computed for 41.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Norwich was Vega, in Lyra, 85.0° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norwich on any night.
The Moon, 31% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Norwich, United States
- Lives in
- Saratoga · Port Townsend
Wikidata records Saratoga and Port Townsend as Annie Proulx's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Annie Proulx: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Annie's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets · Venus retrograde
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Annie Proulx's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 22, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Annie Proulx's birth date, August 22, 1935, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Annie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Annie Proulx's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Annie Proulx combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Annie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini 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
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Annie’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.3° orb
Annie’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.0° orb
Annie’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.3° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextilePluto4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.3° to 6.1° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn6.1° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Annie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 13°51′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 27°02′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°06′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Eros opposition Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.1°
Annie’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
More people like Annie
Other screenwriters
- Vanessa Redgrave1937
- Gene Wilder1933
- Paul Zindel1936
- Robert Silverberg1935
- Gary Lockwood1937
- Carol Burnett1933
Born in United States
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More charts like Annie’s
Fellow Leo suns
- John VarleyAmerican science fiction author
- Frank M. RobinsonAmerican science fiction writer
- Daniel KeyesAmerican author
Born in Pig years
- Ada LovelaceEnglish mathematician
- Salman RushdieIndian-born English and American novelist
- Antoine LavoisierFrench nobleman and chemist
Also born on August 22
- Ray Bradbury1920
- Dua Lipa1995
- Tori Amos1963
- Kristen Wiig1973
- Layne Staley1967
- Andrew Wilson1964
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Miles TellerAmerican actor
- Şerif SezerTurkish actor (born 1946)
- J. K. SimmonsAmerican actor (born 1955)
Other Leo Pig charts
- Rebecca GayheartAmerican actress
- Mamie GummerAmerican actress
- Greta GerwigAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Chris HarrisonAmerican television personality/game show host
Other Gilded Guardians
- Ashley GreeneAmerican actress
- Felicity HuffmanAmerican actress
- Vivica A. FoxAmerican actress
- Meghann FahyAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Burl IvesAmerican musician
- Joel GreyAmerican actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)
- Andrew GroveHungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Annie’s cards
Computed from August 22, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Annie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229840 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Annie Proulx at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Annie Proulx.
Quick answers about Annie Proulx’s chart
- How old is Annie Proulx?
- Annie Proulx is 91 years old, born August 22, 1935 in Norwich, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Annie Proulx?
- Annie Proulx is a Leo: born August 22, 1935, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Annie Proulx's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1935 birth.
- What is Annie Proulx's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Annie Proulx's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Annie Proulx's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Annie Proulx's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
