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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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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

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

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

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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Annie sits

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Annie’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Annie

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Annie

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Annie

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Annie

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Annie

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Annie

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Leo Sun

Loves 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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Annie Proulx's birth date, August 22, 1935, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Annie’s chart

Annie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Annie Proulx, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.2° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 28°37′28°Moon in Gemini · 17°11′17°Mercury in Virgo · 10°42′10°Venus in Virgo · 22°21′ · retrograde22°Mars in Scorpio · 13°55′13°Jupiter in Scorpio · 15°57′15°Saturn in Pisces · 7°29′ · retrogradeUranus in Taurus · 5°28′ · retrogradeNeptune in Virgo · 13°43′13°Pluto in Cancer · 26°31′26°

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Annie’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Annie’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.3° to 4.1° orb

    Annie’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.8° orb

    Annie’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextilePluto4.1° to 4.3° orb

    Annie’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.3° to 6.1° orb

    Annie’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn6.1° to 6.8° orb

    Annie’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb

    Annie’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironGemini 15°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Annie turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresVirgo 13°51′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Annie caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ErosAquarius 27°02′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Annie is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • HygieaTaurus 12°06′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Annie is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Annie exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 1. Mercury8 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Sun5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo

  3. 3. Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Annie is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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.

  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Annie Proulx, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Annie’s cards

Every card is computed from August 22, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yin Wood

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Annie Proulx, 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 Q229840, 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.

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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
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 time was Annie Proulx 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 Proulx's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1935 birth date.
What is Annie Proulx's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1935 birth date.
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.

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