Connie Willis
Connie Willis (born December 31, 1945, Denver, United States), aged 80, is an American science fiction writer. Willis is best known for Blackout/All Clear, To Say Nothing of the Dog and Doomsday Book. Willis's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novelette and Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Connie Willis’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Connie
Connie Willis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Connie in the U.S.?
#3075
US rank in 2025
~273,740
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,337 American girls and 159 boys named Connie in 1945: 47th among girls and 471st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Connie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (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
Connie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Connie apart
Anthony Hopkins (1937) and Baron Waqa (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Connie, according to the stars
Core essence
Connie is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Connie is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Connie is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Connie needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Connie wants to be loved
Connie wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Connie you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Connie creates
How Connie makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Connie builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Connie 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Connie is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Connie does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Connie's birth date. Working below.
Where Connie sits
Six lines
Connie’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Connie Willis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Denver 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 Denver that night
Computed for 39.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Denver at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Denver sits at 39.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Denver on any night.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Connie's chart is
Chart pattern score
19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Connie Willis's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Connie Willis was born on December 31, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Connie Willis's birth date, December 31, 1945, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Connie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Connie Willis' date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Connie Willis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Connie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Sagittarius 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Connie’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.3° to 2.5° orb
Connie’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
Connie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.5° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 6.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Connie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 20°09′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 29°32′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°23′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.2°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.6°
Connie’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Connie’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.5°
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More charts like Connie’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Ernst RuskaGerman physicist
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Born in Rooster years
- Katori HallAmerican playwright
- Tyler HicksAmerican photojournalist
- John M. HightowerAmerican reporter
Also born on December 31
- Anthony Hopkins1937
- Baron Waqa1959
- Hunter Schafer1998
- Diane von Fürstenberg1946
- Richie McCaw1980
- Gabby Douglas1995
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Shirley Ann GrauAmerican writer
- William Carlos WilliamsAmerican poet
- Louise ErdrichAmerican-Ojibwe poet, novelist, and children's writer (born 1954)
Other Capricorn Rooster charts
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- Julian BarnesEnglish writer (born 1946)
- Bruce BeutlerAmerican immunologist and geneticist
- Har Gobind KhoranaIndian-American molecular biologist
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Charles WarrenAmerican legal scholar
- John L. GauntAmerican photographer
- Michael S. SchmidtAmerican Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
- Lisa FalkenbergAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Eric F. WieschausAmerican geneticist
- Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- David JuliusAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
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Connie’s cards
Computed from December 31, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Connie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234700 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Connie Willis 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 Connie Willis.
Quick answers about Connie Willis’s chart
- How old is Connie Willis?
- Connie Willis is 80 years old, born December 31, 1945 in Denver, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Connie Willis?
- Connie Willis is a Capricorn: born December 31, 1945, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Connie Willis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1945 birth.
- What is Connie Willis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Connie Willis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Connie Willis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Connie Willis's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
