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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with China
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 1885
1992
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1972, China came 3,573rd, carried by 17 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What China’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
China’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 China apart
What keeps China Miéville in print: Perdido Street Station.
Oakham School and Clare College shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1986, at 14.
China Miéville was born to Claudia Cecilia Vaux Mieville.
The same date carries Idris Elba. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Perdido Street Station
- Educated at
- Oakham School, Clare College and University College School
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (2010), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2003) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2018)
- Nominated for
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel and Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- Working from
- 1986
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 39
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. Working below.
Where China sits
Six lines
China’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 China Miéville
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norwich 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 Norwich that night
Computed for 52.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Norwich at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 52.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
How unusual China's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.2° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.6° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°45′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 28°40′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.5°
China’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in China’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as China
Idris Elba was born on September 6, 1972 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Norwich, at 52.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like China
Other writers
- Jessica Seinfeld1971
- N. K. Jemisin1972
- Silas House1971
- Andrea Elliott1972
- Kristi Yamaguchi1971
- David Leonhardt1973
Born in United Kingdom
- Duncan JonesBritish film director
- Idris ElbaBritish actor
- Paul BettanyBritish actor
- Liam GallagherBritish singer
- Ewan McGregorScottish actor
- Jonny Lee MillerBritish actor
More charts like China’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Merle Eugene CurtiAmerican historian
- Arnaldo CortesiAmerican journalist and foreign correspondent
- Hamlin GarlandAmerican novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
Born in Rat years
- Justin SkuleAmerican football player
- Chase McLaughlinAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Joey SlyeAmerican football player (born 1996)
Also born on September 6
- Idris Elba1972
- Max George1988
- Pippa Middleton1983
- Shay Rudolph2005
- Asher Angel2002
- Jane Addams1860
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Martin BalsamAmerican actor
- Folco LulliItalian actor
- David HuddlestonAmerican actor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- Bob EggletonAmerican artist
- Vonda N. McIntyreAmerican science fiction writer
- N. K. JemisinAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer
Other Gilded Seekers
- Prabowo SubiantoPresident of the Republic of Indonesia
- Noah JupeBritish actor
- Linda CaicedoColombian footballer (born 2005)
- Linda NoskováCzech tennis player (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Pearl S. BuckChinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary
- Jean-Marie LehnFrench chemist
- Robert W. HolleyAmerican biochemist
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
China’s cards
Computed from September 6, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
China’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319196 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is China Miéville's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is China Miéville's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
