Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan (born July 17, 1976, Cleveland, United States), aged 50, is an American screenwriter, comic book creator. Vaughan is best known for Y: The Last Man, Paper Girls and Saga. Vaughan's honours include Harvey Award for Best Continuing or Limited Series, Harvey Award for Best New Series and Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work.
Brian K. Vaughan’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Brian K. Vaughan’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian feels the room before entering it. The core of Brian is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Brian, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Brian 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 Brian needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Brian wants to be loved
Brian wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Brian openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Brian 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: Brian is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Brian is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Brian K. Vaughan in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Brian K. Vaughan's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Brian K. Vaughan was born on July 17, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Brian K. Vaughan's birth date, July 17, 1976, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian K. Vaughan's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Brian K. Vaughan combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brian K. Vaughan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb
Brian’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.5° orb
Brian’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Brian’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 2.3° orb
Brian’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.4° to 3.4° orb
Brian’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 3.0° orb
Brian’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Brian’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Brian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
Brian’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
Brian’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.4° to 6.5° orb
Brian’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb
Brian’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Brian’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Brian building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCancer 29°27′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Brian is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosGemini 12°10′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Brian is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°07′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Brian at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Brian carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron square Venus 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Brian’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Brian is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Brian’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 quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brian K. Vaughan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Brian
Luke Bryan was born on July 17, 1976 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Brian’s cards
Every card is computed from July 17, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brian K. Vaughan, 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
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q849628, 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 Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian K. Vaughan at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
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 Brian K. Vaughan.
Quick answers about Brian K. Vaughan’s chart
- How old is Brian K. Vaughan?
- Brian K. Vaughan is 50 years old, born July 17, 1976 in Cleveland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brian K. Vaughan?
- Brian K. Vaughan is a Cancer: born July 17, 1976, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
- What is Brian K. Vaughan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1976 birth.
- What time was Brian K. Vaughan 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 Brian K. Vaughan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 17, 1976 birth date.
- What is Brian K. Vaughan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 17, 1976 birth date.
- Where is Brian K. Vaughan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brian K. Vaughan's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
