Arkady Martine
Arkady Martine (born April 19, 1985, New York City, United States), aged 41, is an American science fiction author and historian (born 1985). Martine is best known for A Desolation Called Peace and A Memory Called Empire. Martine's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Arkady Martine’s zodiac sign is Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Arkady
What Arkady’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arkady’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌿 Fern
White · Forest
The record
What sets Arkady apart
Maria Sharapova (1987) and Kate Hudson (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Arkady, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Arkady runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Arkady needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Arkady wants to be loved
Arkady 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 Arkady creates
How Arkady makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Arkady creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Arkady is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Arkady is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Arkady leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Arkady is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Arkady's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Arkady's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Five planets retrograde · 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.
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Aries or Taurus Sun
Arkady Martine was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Arkady Martine was born on April 19, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Arkady Martine's birth date, April 19, 1985, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Arkady’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arkady Martine's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
Arkady’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 29° Aries 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Arkady’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.2° to 0.6° orb
Arkady’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.0° to 1.7° orb
Arkady’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.2° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.4° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 3.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.7° to 15.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Arkady’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 29°35′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 4°24′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.6°
Arkady’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Arkady’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Arkady’s cards
Computed from April 19, 1985. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arkady’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q58640138 (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 Arkady Martine at Wikipedia, arkadymartine.net, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Arkady Martine’s chart
- How old is Arkady Martine?
- Arkady Martine is 41 years old, born April 19, 1985 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Arkady Martine?
- Arkady Martine was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Arkady Martine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1985 birth.
- What is Arkady Martine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Arkady Martine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Arkady Martine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Arkady Martine's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
