Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss (born August 18, 1925, Dereham, United Kingdom; died 2017), was a British science fiction writer. Aldiss is best remembered for Hothouse and Non-Stop. Aldiss's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Ditmar Award and Tähtivaeltaja Award.
Brian Aldiss’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Brian
Brian Aldiss’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1909
1972
its peak year
The SSA recorded 59 American boys named Brian in 1925: 872nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
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 record
What sets Brian apart
Edward Norton (1969) and Patrick Swayze (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Brian 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, Brian needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Brian needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Brian wants to be loved
Brian 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 Brian and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Brian builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Brian 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 7 is the seeker. Brian is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Brian channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Brian's birth date. Working below.
Where Brian sits
Six lines
Brian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dereham 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 Dereham that night
Computed for 52.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Dereham was Eltanin, in Draco, 88.6° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 52.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dereham on any night.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Brian's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Brian Aldiss's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 18, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Brian Aldiss was born on August 18, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Brian Aldiss's birth date, August 18, 1925, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian Aldiss' date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Brian Aldiss combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 18° Leo 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
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
Brian’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Brian’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 1.8° orb
Brian’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.1° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.9° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 3.5° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileSaturnorb from 4.9° to 5.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 6.5° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Brian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 19°48′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 19°47′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 7°50′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 27°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.6°
Brian’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Brian’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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 2.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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Brian’s cards
Computed from August 18, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q238702 (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 Szymon Sokół, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian Aldiss at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brian Aldiss.
Quick answers about Brian Aldiss’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Brian Aldiss?
- Brian Aldiss was a Leo: born August 18, 1925, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Brian Aldiss's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 18, 1925 birth.
- What was Brian Aldiss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Brian Aldiss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Brian Aldiss's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Brian Aldiss's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
