Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell (born January 6, 1905, Sandhurst, United Kingdom; died 1978), was an English science fiction writer. Russell's honours include Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Eric Frank Russell’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric Frank Russell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
In 1905, 23 American boys were registered Eric — 467th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
5
Soul Urge · freedom
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Eric apart
The Hugo Award for Best Short Story came in 1955, when Eric Frank Russell was 50.
Eric Frank Russell was 32 when the work began in 1937.
On Wikipedia the categories read Fortean writers, English horror writers and Military personnel from Berkshire.
Rowan Atkinson (1955) and Eddie Redmayne (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1955) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2000)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Collection
- Working from
- 1937
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Eric 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.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Eric be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Eric creates
How Eric 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. Eric 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: Eric is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Eric 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Eric fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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.
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The sky over Sandhurst that night
Computed for 51.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Sandhurst at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −38.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sandhurst on any night.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sandhurst, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Liverpool in 1978.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Eric Frank Russell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Capricorn
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 SunWorking while you were asleep.
Eric Frank Russell's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Eric Frank Russell was born on January 6, 1905, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Eric Frank Russell's birth date, January 6, 1905, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Frank Russell's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eric Frank Russell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupitersextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Eric’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
Eric’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.4° to 2.2° orb
Eric’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileUranus1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.5° to 5.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.0° to 5.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°27′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°58′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°48′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 28°44′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.0°
- Ceres square Mars 2.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.6°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.9°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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-square Saturn 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
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Eric’s cards
Computed from January 6, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329999 (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.
The same Eric Frank Russell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Eric Frank Russell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eric Frank Russell?
- Eric Frank Russell was a Capricorn: born January 6, 1905, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Eric Frank Russell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1905 birth.
- What was Eric Frank Russell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eric Frank Russell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Eric Frank Russell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eric Frank Russell's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
