C. J. Cherryh
C. J. Cherryh (born September 1, 1942, St. Louis, United States), aged 84, is an United States science fiction and fantasy author. Cherryh is best known for Foreigner series, Alliance-Union universe and Cyteen. Cherryh's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Edward E. Smith Memorial Award.
C. J. Cherryh’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with C. J. Cherryh
C. J. Cherryh’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What C. J. Cherryh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on C (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
C. J. Cherryh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets C. J. Cherryh apart
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
C. J. Cherryh, according to the stars
Core essence
C. J. Cherryh notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of C. J. Cherryh is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How C. J. Cherryh wants to be loved
C. J. Cherryh 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 C. J. Cherryh openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How C. J. Cherryh creates
How C. J. Cherryh makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. C. J. Cherryh creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: C. J. Cherryh is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. C. J. Cherryh 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means C. J. Cherryh 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 C. J. Cherryh's birth date. Working below.
Where C. J. Cherryh sits
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C. J. Cherryh’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Dedicate a star to C. J. Cherryh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from St. Louis at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 56% lit at last quarter.
How unusual C.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
C. J. Cherryh's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
C. J. Cherryh was born on September 1, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
C. J. Cherryh's birth date, September 1, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in C. J. Cherryh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in C. J. Cherryh's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- C. J. Cherryh combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
C. J. Cherryh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.7° orb
C. J. Cherryh’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.7° to 2.2° orb
C. J. Cherryh’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto1.8° orb
C. J. Cherryh’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.9° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.4° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.2° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
C. J. Cherryh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 21°22′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 0°49′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 9°43′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.3°
C. J. Cherryh’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in C. J. Cherryh’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.6°
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C. J. Cherryh’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
C. J. Cherryh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234030 (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 RaenLyn at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same C. J. Cherryh at Wikipedia, cherryh.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by C. J. Cherryh.
Quick answers about C. J. Cherryh’s chart
- How old is C. J. Cherryh?
- C. J. Cherryh is 84 years old, born September 1, 1942 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is C. J. Cherryh?
- C. J. Cherryh is a Virgo: born September 1, 1942, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is C. J. Cherryh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1942 birth.
- What is C. J. Cherryh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is C. J. Cherryh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is C. J. Cherryh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is C. J. Cherryh's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
