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Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975, Lincoln, United States), aged 50, is an American fantasy writer (born 1975). Sanderson is best known for Rithmatist series, Legion series and Warbreaker. Sanderson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Brandon Sanderson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Brandon Sanderson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Storyteller

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#261

US rank in 2025

~774,654

Americans share it since 1914

1992

its peak year

In 1975, 7,090 American boys and 97 girls were registered Brandon — 44th among boys and 1,192nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brandon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (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

Brandon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1975, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Brandon apart

Skyward series, Tress of the Emerald Sea and Legion series. That is the work the name is attached to.

Brandon Sanderson was taught at Lincoln East High School and Brigham Young University.

Brandon Sanderson was 30 when the work began in 2005.

On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Lincoln, Nebraska, Brigham Young University faculty and Latter Day Saints from Nebraska.

Wesley Morris shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Skyward series, Tress of the Emerald Sea and Legion series
Educated at
Lincoln East High School and Brigham Young University
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Novella (2013), Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2013) and Whitney Awards (2007)
Nominated for
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and Hugo Award for Best Series
Working from
2005
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
48

What the chart says

Brandon, according to the stars

Core essence

Brandon is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Brandon is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Brandon is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Brandon needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Brandon wants to be loved

Brandon wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Brandon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Brandon creates

How Brandon 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. Brandon 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: Brandon is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Brandon 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Brandon scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Brandon's birth date. Working below.

Where Brandon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Brandon

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brandon

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Brandon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brandon

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Brandon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brandon

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 12.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Lincoln that night

Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Lincoln at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Lincoln sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lincoln on any night.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.

How unusual Brandon's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

Grand cross · Mars 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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Brandon Sanderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Brandon Sanderson was born on December 19, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Brandon Sanderson's birth date, December 19, 1975, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Brandon’s chart

Brandon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.9° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 27°13′☉27°Moon in Cancer · 11°16′☽11°Mercury in Capricorn · 8°46′☿8°Venus in Scorpio · 14°49′♀14°Mars in Gemini · 21°22′ · retrograde♂℞21°Jupiter in Aries · 14°54′♃14°Saturn in Leo · 1°53′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°53′♅5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 12°05′♆12°Pluto in Libra · 11°31′♇11°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMoonsquarePluto0.0° to 7.0° orb

    Brandon’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

    Brandon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.0° to 3.5° orb

    Brandon’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionMars5.1° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.4° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 23°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 4°20′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 21°60′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 3°55′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°

Brandon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Brandon’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus biquintile Mars 0.6°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 1.3°

Born the same day as Brandon

Wesley Morris was born on December 19, 1975 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Lincoln sits at 40.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Brandon’s cards

Computed from December 19, 1975. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brandon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q457608 (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 Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brandon Sanderson.

Quick answers about Brandon Sanderson’s chart

How old is Brandon Sanderson?
Brandon Sanderson is 50 years old, born December 19, 1975 in Lincoln, United States.
What zodiac sign is Brandon Sanderson?
Brandon Sanderson is a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1975, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Brandon Sanderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1975 birth.
What is Brandon Sanderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Brandon Sanderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Brandon Sanderson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Brandon Sanderson's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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