Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear (born September 22, 1971, Hartford, United States), aged 55, 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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Elizabeth
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
In 1971, 13,606 American girls and 64 boys were registered Elizabeth — 19th among girls and 1,019th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elizabeth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Elizabeth apart
Michael Faraday (1791) and Andrea Bocelli (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Elizabeth sits
Six lines
Elizabeth’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 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.
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 Elizabeth Bear
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hartford 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 Hartford that night
Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Hartford sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Elizabeth's chart is
Chart pattern score
67 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune1.3° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.9° to 7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°09′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 1°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°41′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°27′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Elizabeth’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Elizabeth’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
More people like Elizabeth
Other writers
- Selina Tusitala Marsh1971
- Naomi Kritzer1973
- Bill Rancic1971
- David Leonhardt1973
- Kristi Yamaguchi1971
- Andrea Elliott1972
Born in United States
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- Sanaa LathanAmerican actress
- Winona RyderAmerican actress
- Sutton StrackeAmerican socialite and television personality
- Rosemarie DeWittAmerican actress
More charts like Elizabeth’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Paul WilliamsAmerican composer, singer, songwriter and actor
- William FriedkinAmerican director and producer
- Lauren BacallAmerican actress
Born in Pig years
- Nick RobinsonAmerican actor
- Kid CudiAmerican rapper, singer, record producer and actor
- Johnny KnoxvilleAmerican stunt performer and actor
Also born on September 22
- Michael Faraday1791
- Andrea Bocelli1958
- Thiago Silva1984
- Tom Felton1987
- Nick Cave1957
- Joan Jett1958
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- V. S. NaipaulTrinidadian-British writer
- Howard JacobsonBritish author and journalist
- Bernice RubensBritish writer
Other Virgo Pig charts
- Linda HoganAmerican television personality
- Brett GardnerAmerican baseball player
- Pippa MiddletonBritish socialite, author and columnist; sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Sanaa LathanAmerican actress
Other Gilded Explorers
- Wanya MorrisAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tim Hardaway Jr.American basketball player (born 1992)
- T. J. McConnellAmerican basketball player
- Dylan HarperAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Isaac SternAmerican musician
- Roger DaltreyEnglish musician and lead vocalist of The Who
- Merce CunninghamAmerican dancer and choreographer
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Elizabeth’s cards
Computed from September 22, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1029497 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elizabeth Bear.
Quick answers about Elizabeth Bear’s chart
- How old is Elizabeth Bear?
- Elizabeth Bear is 55 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.
- 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 is Elizabeth Bear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elizabeth Bear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
