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Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson (born April 23, 1923, Yonkers, United States; died 1993), was an American writer. Davidson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Edgar Awards and Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine.

Avram Davidson’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Avram Davidson’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Avram in the U.S.?

#4559

US rank in 2025

~937

Americans share it since 1950

2015

its peak year

Avram is in US records from 1950, but 1923 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2015.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Avram’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

9

Soul Urge · meaning

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Avram’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Avram apart

Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Avram, according to the stars

Core essence

Avram 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 Avram 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.

How Avram wants to be loved

Avram wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Avram, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Avram creates

How Avram makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Avram creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Avram 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Avram is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Avram scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Avram's birth date. Working below.

Where Avram sits

Six lines

Avram’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Avram

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Avram

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Avram

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Avram

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Avram

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Avram

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Avram Davidson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yonkers on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Avram’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 80.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Yonkers that night

Computed for 40.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yonkers at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 49% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.

How unusual Avram's chart is

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Uranus · Grand trine · T-square onto Neptune

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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Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Avram Davidson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Avram Davidson was born on April 23, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Avram Davidson's birth date, April 23, 1923, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Avram’s chart

Avram’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.3° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.7° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 6.2° orbSun in Taurus · 2°31′☉2°Moon in Cancer · 26°16′☽26°Mercury in Taurus · 18°13′☿18°Venus in Pisces · 26°36′♀26°Mars in Gemini · 5°10′♂5°Jupiter in Scorpio · 15°34′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Libra · 15°34′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Pisces · 16°09′♅16°Neptune in Leo · 15°23′ · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Cancer · 9°16′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.2° orb

    Avram’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Avram’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.9° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.3° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.9° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.2° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.5° to 13.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Avram’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 17°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 8°50′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 19°59′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 2°21′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.5°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.8°

Avram’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Avram’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Saturn, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°

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Avram’s cards

Computed from April 23, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Avram’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q782991 (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 Avram Davidson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Avram Davidson.

Quick answers about Avram Davidson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Avram Davidson?
Avram Davidson was a Taurus: born April 23, 1923, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Avram Davidson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1923 birth.
What was Avram Davidson's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Avram Davidson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Avram Davidson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Avram Davidson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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