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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Brian
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 1909
1972
its peak year
Brian ranked 8th among boys and 870th among girls in 1976, the year of this birth, with 30,517 American boys and 155 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, 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 Brian apart
The shelf Brian K. Vaughan is read from: Saga, Lost and Y: The Last Man.
The classrooms behind this chart: Lake Ridge Academy and Saint Ignatius High School.
The same date carries Luke Bryan. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Saga, Lost and Y: The Last Man
- Educated at
- Lake Ridge Academy and Saint Ignatius High School
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (2024), Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series (2014) and Harvey Award for Best Writer (2013)
- Nominated for
- Eisner Award for Best Writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
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. 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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Brian K. Vaughan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 74.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cleveland on any night.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon down and 62% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Brian's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 29°27′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 12°10′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°07′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Brian’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
Born the same day as Brian
Luke Bryan was born on July 17, 1976 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.5°N, the sky above Cleveland stops at −48.5° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Brian
Born in United States
- Melissa Joan HartAmerican actress
- Mike ColterAmerican actor
- Blake SheltonAmerican country music singer and television personality
- Soleil Moon FryeAmerican actress, director, screenwriter (born 1976)
- Jonathan BrandisAmerican actor
- Benjamin MoserAmerican linguist, writer
More charts like Brian’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Alejandro GarnachoSpanish-Argentine association football player
- Mahendra Singh DhoniIndian cricket player (born 1981)
- Canelo ÁlvarezMexican boxer
Born in Dragon years
- Mary BadhamAmerican actress
- John MegnaAmerican actor
- Douglas SilvaBrazilian actor
Also born on July 17
- Angela Merkel1954
- Queen Camilla1947
- Kali Uchis1994
- Alex Winter1965
- Luke Bryan1976
- Tony Dovolani1973
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Jason SegelAmerican actor
- Kim CattrallBritish–Canadian actress
- Zoë KravitzAmerican actress, director, singer and model
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Ambyr ChildersAmerican actress
- Adrian GrenierAmerican actor, director, producer, musician
- Julianne HoughAmerican dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and songwriter (born 1988)
- David HasselhoffAmerican actor, singer, producer, and businessman (born 1952)
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Charlie Jane AndersAmerican author and commentator
- Sonny RollinsAmerican jazz saxophonist and composer
- Denis ZakariaSwiss association football player
- Fredrik André BjørkanNorwegian footballer (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Peter WeirAustralian film director (born 1944)
- Fritz LeiberAmerican writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
- Bob EggletonAmerican artist
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Brian’s cards
Computed from July 17, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q849628 (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 Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 is Brian K. Vaughan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Brian K. Vaughan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
