George Orwell
George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair; June 25, 1903, Motihari, India; died 1950), was a British writer and journalist. Orwell is best remembered for A Clergyman's Daughter, Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London. Orwell's honours include Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella.
George Orwell’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with George
George Orwell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1903, 3,961 American boys and 27 girls were registered George — 4th among boys and 644th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Eric Arthur Blair, not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, 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 George apart
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through St Cyprian's School and Eton College.
George Orwell was 25 when the work began in 1928.
The record gives tuberculosis as the cause, and Church of All Saints cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, George Orwell was born to Ida Mabel Limouzin and Richard Walmesley Blair, married Eileen O'Shaughnessy and Sonia Orwell and raised one child.
George Michael (1963) and Anthony Bourdain (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier
- Educated at
- St Cyprian's School, Eton College and Wellington College
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novella (1996) and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (1996)
- Working from
- 1928
- Cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Buried at
- Church of All Saints cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 212
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George feels the room before entering it. The core of George is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for George, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. George builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: George is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. George 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: 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. George fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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 George Orwell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Motihari 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 Motihari that night
Computed for 26.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Motihari was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 89.5° up.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
Motihari sits at 26.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Eric Arthur Blair
- Known as
- George Orwell
- Born in
- Motihari, India
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Orwell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter · No Earth 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
George Orwell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
George Orwell's birth date, June 25, 1903, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Orwell's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- George Orwell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 7.4° orb
George’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
George’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableVenussextilePluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.9° to 5.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.6° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 21°03′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 4°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 12°55′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 0°26′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Eros opposition Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 3.0°
George’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Jupiter · Uranus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
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- George Michael1963
- Anthony Bourdain1956
- Alexei Abrikosov1928
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- Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer (born 1991)
- Curtis StoneAustralian chef
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Other Evergreen Strategists
- Stefon DiggsAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Tony DovolaniBallroom dancer
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
George’s cards
Computed from June 25, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3335 (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 Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Orwell at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Orwell.
Quick answers about George Orwell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Orwell?
- George Orwell was a Cancer: born June 25, 1903, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was George Orwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1903 birth.
- How tall was George Orwell?
- George Orwell was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was George Orwell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Orwell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Orwell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Orwell's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
