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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Colson
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.
How common is the name Colson in the U.S.?
#311
US rank in 2025
~9,729
Americans share it since 1924
2025
its peak year
Colson is in US records from 1924, but 1969 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2025.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Colson’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 N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Colson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Colson apart
Sally Field (1946) and Ethan Hawke (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Colson sits
Six lines
Colson’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Colson Whitehead
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 10% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Colson's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Mars · No Fire planets
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
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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.1° to 5.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.1° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°59′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°09′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 0°30′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 26°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Colson’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Colson’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.0°
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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
Computed from November 6, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Colson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q509662 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Colson Whitehead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Colson Whitehead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
