Farah Mendlesohn
Farah Mendlesohn (born July 27, 1968, Manchester, United Kingdom), aged 58, is a British academic and writer on science fiction and fantasy literature. Mendlesohn's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Farah Mendlesohn’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Farah
Farah Mendlesohn’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Farah in the U.S.?
#1350
US rank in 2025
~6,376
Americans share it since 1960
2012
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1968, Farah came 2,993rd, carried by 19 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Farah’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on F (6) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Farah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
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 1968, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Farah apart
Farah Mendlesohn took the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2005, at 37.
Baverstock School and University of York shaped the training.
The family line: married Edward James.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Farah Mendlesohn: British religion academics, Academics of Middlesex University and Alumni of the University of York.
Demis Hassabis (1976) and Winnie Harlow (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Baverstock School and University of York
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2005)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Farah, according to the stars
Core essence
Farah is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Farah is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Farah wants to be loved
Farah wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Farah openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Farah creates
How Farah makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Farah creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Farah is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Farah is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Farah 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 Farah's birth date. Working below.
Where Farah sits
Six lines
Farah’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Farah Mendlesohn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manchester 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 Manchester that night
Computed for 53.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Manchester at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 6% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
How unusual Farah's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
3 unaspected planets · Yod onto Saturn · No Air 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Farah Mendlesohn's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 27, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Farah Mendlesohn was born on July 27, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Farah Mendlesohn's birth date, July 27, 1968, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Farah’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Farah Mendlesohn's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Farah Mendlesohn combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Farah’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Farah’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.4° to 2.3° orb
Farah’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.5° to 2.4° orb
Farah’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.0° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn1.1° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.2° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.6° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.1° to 5.0° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Farah’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra or Scorpio during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°04′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 10°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°26′ (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 Sun 0.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.3°
- Eros square Sun 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.8°
Farah’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Farah’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.7°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
Farah’s family here
One relative of Farah Mendlesohn also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Farah
Other historians
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- Edmund Morris1940
- Thomas K. McCraw1940
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- David M. Kennedy1941
- Mike Wallace1942
Born in United Kingdom
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More charts like Farah’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Walter ScharfAmerican composer and arranger
- Lily GladstoneAmerican actress (born 1986)
- V. S. NaipaulTrinidadian-British writer
Born in Monkey years
- Thurgood MarshallAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
- Dick DurbinUnited States Senator from Illinois
- Angus KingAmerican politician and lawyer (born 1944)
Also born on July 27
- Demis Hassabis1976
- Winnie Harlow1994
- Tory Lanez1992
- Young Dolph1985
- Nick Hogan1990
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers1977
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Braxton JonesUS American football offensive tackle
- Markquese BellAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Luke SchoonmakerAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Leo Monkey charts
- Luc MontagnierFrench virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Richard WillstätterGerman chemist
- Gerty CoriAustro-Hungarian-American biochemist
- Frances ArnoldNobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Other Steadfast Architects
- Daron PayneAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Josh JacobsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Dexter LawrenceAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Da'Shawn HandAmerican football player (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Jacques MonodFrench biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Konrad LorenzAustrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
- Edgar Douglas AdrianEnglish electrophysiologist
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Farah’s cards
Computed from July 27, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
22 · Master Builder☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Farah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4967006 (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 Johan A from Uppsala, Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Farah Mendlesohn at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Farah Mendlesohn.
Quick answers about Farah Mendlesohn’s chart
- How old is Farah Mendlesohn?
- Farah Mendlesohn is 58 years old, born July 27, 1968 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Farah Mendlesohn?
- Farah Mendlesohn is a Leo: born July 27, 1968, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Farah Mendlesohn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 27, 1968 birth.
- What is Farah Mendlesohn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Farah Mendlesohn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Farah Mendlesohn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Farah Mendlesohn's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
