Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear (born September 22, 1971, Hartford, United States), aged 54, is an American writer. Bear is best known for Hammered and Tideline. Bear's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Elizabeth Bear’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Elizabeth Bear’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Elizabeth in the U.S.?
#17
US rank in 2025
~1,693,973
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Elizabeth, according to the stars
Core essence
Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Elizabeth wants to be loved
Elizabeth 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. Elizabeth gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Elizabeth creates
How Elizabeth makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Elizabeth 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: Elizabeth is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Elizabeth is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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. Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Elizabeth sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Elizabeth Bear at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Elizabeth Bear's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1971, 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.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Elizabeth Bear was born on September 22, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Elizabeth Bear's birth date, September 22, 1971, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Elizabeth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elizabeth Bear's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, 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.
- Elizabeth Bear combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Elizabeth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Elizabeth Bear, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb
Elizabeth’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Elizabeth’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
Elizabeth’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Elizabeth’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Elizabeth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.3° to 2.2° orb
Elizabeth’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
Elizabeth’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.2° to 3.0° orb
Elizabeth’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
Elizabeth’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
Elizabeth’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.8° orb
Elizabeth’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.9° to 7.1° orb
Elizabeth’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Elizabeth’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 12°09′ (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: Elizabeth may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 1°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Elizabeth is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosVirgo 28°41′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Elizabeth is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°27′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Elizabeth is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Elizabeth that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.0°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.7°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Elizabeth’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth’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, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elizabeth Bear, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Elizabeth’s cards
Every card is computed from September 22, 1971, 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
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Elizabeth Bear, 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
Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1029497, 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 Ash Crow, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elizabeth Bear at Wikipedia, elizabethbear.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Elizabeth Bear.
Quick answers about Elizabeth Bear’s chart
- How old is Elizabeth Bear?
- Elizabeth Bear is 54 years old, born September 22, 1971 in Hartford, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Elizabeth Bear?
- Elizabeth Bear is a Virgo: born September 22, 1971, 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 Metal Pig.
- What is Elizabeth Bear's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1971 birth.
- What time was Elizabeth Bear 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 Elizabeth Bear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the September 22, 1971 birth date.
- What is Elizabeth Bear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 22, 1971 birth date.
- Where is Elizabeth Bear's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elizabeth Bear's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
