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Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979, Seattle, United States), aged 47, is an American writer (born 1979). Valente's honours include Andre Norton Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award and Lambda Literary Award.

Catherynne M. Valente’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Catherynne M. Valente’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

Catherynne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

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What the chart says

Catherynne, according to the stars

Core essence

Catherynne is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Catherynne is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Catherynne wants to be loved

Catherynne wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Catherynne creates

How Catherynne makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Catherynne creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Catherynne is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Catherynne is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Catherynne gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Catherynne's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Catherynne sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Catherynne

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Catherynne

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Catherynne

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Catherynne

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Catherynne

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Catherynne

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Catherynne M. Valente

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

Catherynne’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 82.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 36.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Catherynne M. Valente at a glance

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Catherynne M. Valente's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 5, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Goat

Artist first, everything second.

Catherynne M. Valente was born on May 5, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Catherynne M. Valente's birth date, May 5, 1979, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Catherynne’s chart

Catherynne’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Catherynne M. Valente, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.5° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.6° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.8° orbSun in Taurus · 14°41′☉14°Moon in Virgo · 2°08′☽2°Mercury in Aries · 21°42′☿21°Venus in Aries · 15°13′♀15°Mars in Aries · 22°08′♂22°Jupiter in Leo · 1°29′♃1°Saturn in Virgo · 7°05′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Scorpio · 19°10′ · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Sagittarius · 20°01′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Libra · 17°07′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Catherynne’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.9° to 2.5° orb

    Catherynne’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto1.3° to 2.5° orb

    Catherynne’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 2.5° orb

    Catherynne’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.8° to 5.4° orb

    Catherynne’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb

    Catherynne’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb

    Catherynne’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.4° orb

    Catherynne’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.7° orb

    Catherynne’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.7° to 7.1° orb

    Catherynne’s affections and drive act as one.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

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

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

Catherynne’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 9°44′ (moves 0.06° 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 Catherynne building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 27°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Catherynne is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 20°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Catherynne is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 17°29′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Catherynne needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Catherynne is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.5°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.8°

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°).

Catherynne’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. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars8 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Catherynne is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Catherynne’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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Catherynne M. Valente, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Catherynne

Vincent Kartheiser was born on May 5, 1979 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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Catherynne’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Catherynne M. Valente, 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

Catherynne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q859065, 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 Johan Jönsson (Julle), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Catherynne M. Valente at Wikipedia, catherynnemvalente.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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.

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Quick answers about Catherynne M. Valente’s chart

How old is Catherynne M. Valente?
Catherynne M. Valente is 47 years old, born May 5, 1979 in Seattle, United States.
What zodiac sign is Catherynne M. Valente?
Catherynne M. Valente is a Taurus: born May 5, 1979, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
What is Catherynne M. Valente's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 5, 1979 birth.
What time was Catherynne M. Valente 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 Catherynne M. Valente's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 5, 1979 birth date.
What is Catherynne M. Valente's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 5, 1979 birth date.
Where is Catherynne M. Valente's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Catherynne M. Valente's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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