China Miéville
China Miéville (born September 6, 1972, Norwich, United Kingdom), aged 54, is an English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972). Miéville is best known for Perdido Street Station. Miéville's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Arthur C. Clarke Award.
China Miéville’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with China Miéville?
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- · What you would bring to the match
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- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
China Miéville’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name China in the U.S.?
#11148
US rank in 2025
~4,618
Americans share it since 1880
1992
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
China’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
China, according to the stars
Core essence
China 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 China is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How China wants to be loved
China wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. China gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How China creates
How China makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. China 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: China is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. China 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 China 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 China's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where China sits
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
China Miéville's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
China Miéville was born on September 6, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
China Miéville's birth date, September 6, 1972, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in China’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in China Miéville's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- China Miéville combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
China’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for China Miéville, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° 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.
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.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.8° orb
China’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb
China’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.2° to 0.5° orb
China’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
China’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.2° to 4.0° orb
China’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextilePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
China’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° orb
China’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.4° orb
China’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
China’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.4° to 6.0° orb
China’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.6° to 6.5° orb
China’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
China’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: China may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 2°45′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. China is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 28°40′ (moves 0.42° 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. China is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has China carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. China is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.5°
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°).
China’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: China is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 China’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 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 Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for China Miéville, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as China
Idris Elba was born on September 6, 1972 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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China’s cards
Every card is computed from September 6, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for China Miéville, 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
China’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319196, 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 Andrew M Butler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same China Miéville at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by China Miéville.
Quick answers about China Miéville’s chart
- How old is China Miéville?
- China Miéville is 54 years old, born September 6, 1972 in Norwich, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is China Miéville?
- China Miéville is a Virgo: born September 6, 1972, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is China Miéville's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1972 birth.
- What time was China Miéville 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 China Miéville's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 6, 1972 birth date.
- What is China Miéville's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 6, 1972 birth date.
- Where is China Miéville's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is China Miéville's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
