Geoffrey A. Landis
Geoffrey A. Landis (born May 28, 1955, Detroit, United States), aged 71, is an American aerospace engineer and science fiction author. Landis's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Theodore Sturgeon Award and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Geoffrey A. Landis’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Geoffrey
Geoffrey A. Landis’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Geoffrey in the U.S.?
#3599
US rank in 2025
~54,534
Americans share it since 1895
1975
its peak year
The SSA recorded 710 American boys named Geoffrey in 1955: 265th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Geoffrey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Geoffrey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Geoffrey apart
Kylie Minogue (1968) and Marco Rubio (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Geoffrey, according to the stars
Core essence
Geoffrey is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Geoffrey needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Geoffrey is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Geoffrey needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Geoffrey wants to be loved
Geoffrey wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Geoffrey is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Geoffrey creates
How Geoffrey makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Geoffrey creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Geoffrey is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Geoffrey 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 Geoffrey 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 Geoffrey's birth date. Working below.
Where Geoffrey sits
Six lines
Geoffrey’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 3.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Detroit on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 55% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual Geoffrey's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Geoffrey A. Landis's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Geoffrey A. Landis was born on May 28, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Geoffrey A. Landis's birth date, May 28, 1955, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Geoffrey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Geoffrey A. Landis' date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Geoffrey A. Landis combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Geoffrey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Virgo 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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.9° orb
Geoffrey’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.2° to 1.7° orb
Geoffrey’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.2° to 1.4° orb
Geoffrey’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.8° to 6.1° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.5° to 6.2° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Geoffrey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 5°21′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 25°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 20°19′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 7°48′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.2°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.1°
Geoffrey’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Geoffrey’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
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- Kylie Minogue1968
- Marco Rubio1971
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Geoffrey’s cards
Computed from May 28, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Geoffrey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q918443 (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 Markku Lappalainen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Geoffrey A. Landis’s chart
- How old is Geoffrey A. Landis?
- Geoffrey A. Landis is 71 years old, born May 28, 1955 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Geoffrey A. Landis?
- Geoffrey A. Landis is a Gemini: born May 28, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Geoffrey A. Landis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1955 birth.
- What is Geoffrey A. Landis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Geoffrey A. Landis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Geoffrey A. Landis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Geoffrey A. Landis's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
