Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969, New York City, United States), aged 56, is an American novelist (born 1969). Whitehead is best known for The Underground Railroad, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days. Whitehead's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Colson Whitehead’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Colson Whitehead’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Colson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Colson, according to the stars
Core essence
Colson does not do surface. The core of Colson is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Colson is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Colson wants to be loved
Colson wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Colson gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Colson creates
How Colson makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Colson creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Colson is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Colson is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Colson goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Colson's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Colson sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Colson Whitehead's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 6, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Colson Whitehead's birth date, November 6, 1969, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Colson’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Colson Whitehead's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Colson Whitehead combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Colson’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Colson Whitehead, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Colson’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.1° to 3.2° orb
Colson’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.6° to 4.3° orb
Colson’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.0° to 3.8° orb
Colson’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
Colson’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrinePluto4.4° to 5.1° orb
Colson’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus5.1° to 5.8° orb
Colson’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.2° orb
Colson’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareMars6.1° to 6.6° orb
Colson’s affections grind against their drive.
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Colson’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 2°59′ (moves 0.03° 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: Colson may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°09′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Colson is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLibra 0°30′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Colson is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Colson needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 26°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Colson guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.6°
- Eros trine Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 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°).
Colson’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Colson is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Colson’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 Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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 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 semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Colson Whitehead, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Colson’s cards
Every card is computed from November 6, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Colson Whitehead, 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
Colson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q509662, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Colson Whitehead at Wikipedia, colsonwhitehead.com, IMDb, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Colson Whitehead.
Quick answers about Colson Whitehead’s chart
- How old is Colson Whitehead?
- Colson Whitehead is 56 years old, born November 6, 1969 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Colson Whitehead?
- Colson Whitehead is a Scorpio: born November 6, 1969, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
- What is Colson Whitehead's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 6, 1969 birth.
- What time was Colson Whitehead 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 Colson Whitehead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 6, 1969 birth date.
- What is Colson Whitehead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 6, 1969 birth date.
- Where is Colson Whitehead's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Colson Whitehead's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
