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George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948, Bayonne, United States, 21:25), aged 78, is an American writer and television producer. Martin is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, The Armageddon Rag and A Song for Lya and Other Stories. Martin's honours include Locus Award for Best Anthology, Locus Award for Best Short Story and Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story.

George R. R. Martin’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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George R. R. Martin’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional 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 1948, 21,926 American boys and 129 girls were registered George — 16th among boys and 749th 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 George Raymond Martin, not the name they published under.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against 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

33 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

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 1948, 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

Sophia Loren (1934) and Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George 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 George is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, George runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What George needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. George 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: George is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. George is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means George runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
George

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
George

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
George

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bayonne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

George’s birth-sky starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 88.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 22.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above Bayonne at 21:25, George R. R. Martin’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bayonne that night

Computed for 40.66°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Bayonne was Sadr, in Cygnus, 88.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

Bayonne sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 94% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
George Raymond Martin
Known as
George R. R. Martin
Born in
Bayonne, United States
Lives in
Santa Fe

Wikidata records Santa Fe as George R. R. Martin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What George's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微, The Minister 天相 in 戌

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/2

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

18 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

George R. R. Martin's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

George R. R. Martin was born on September 20, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 33

Love as a job description.

George R. R. Martin's birth date, September 20, 1948, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 33 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Virgo · 27°58′ · house 5☉27°Moon in Aries · 27°17′ · house 12☽27°Mercury in Libra · 23°39′ · house 6☿23°Venus in Leo · 12°58′ · house 4♀12°Mars in Scorpio · 11°43′ · house 7♂11°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 21°03′ · house 8♃21°Saturn in Virgo · 0°13′ · house 5♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 0°29′ · house 3♅0°Neptune in Libra · 12°11′ · house 6♆12°Pluto in Leo · 15°50′ · house 4♇15°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 26°58′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 26°58′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 4°38′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 4°38′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantTaurus
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 0.3° orb

    George’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 0.8° orb

    George’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenussquareMarsseparating · 1.3° orb

    George’s affections grind against their drive.

  • SunsquareUranusapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb

  • MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb

  • VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 2.9° orb

  • MoonsextileUranusapplying · 3.2° orb

  • MoonoppositionMercuryseparating · 3.6° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.7° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 4.1° orb

  • JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 5.2° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 6.2° orb

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 6.8° orb

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 21°46′ · House 7

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 2°28′ · House 4

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 10°22′ · House 5

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 21°59′ · House 4

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°49′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.7°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in George’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Sun quincunx Moon 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.3°

George’s houses

George’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Leo, house 4emptyself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Libra, house 6emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Aries, house 12Uranusmind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Virgo, house 5Venus, Plutohome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Libra, house 6Sun, Saturncreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Leo, house 4Mercury, Neptunework, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 4Marspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Sagittarius, house 8Jupitershared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 3emptycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Scorpio, house 7Moonthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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George’s cards

Computed from September 20, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

33 · Lightkeeper

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181677 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Henry Söderlund, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same George R. R. Martin at Wikipedia, georgerrmartin.com, IMDb, 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 George R. R. Martin.

Quick answers about George R. R. Martin’s chart

How old is George R. R. Martin?
George R. R. Martin is 78 years old, born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, United States.
What zodiac sign is George R. R. Martin?
George R. R. Martin is a Virgo: born September 20, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is George R. R. Martin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 20, 1948 birth.
What time was George R. R. Martin born?
21:25 local time in Bayonne, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is George R. R. Martin's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 21:25 birth time in Bayonne, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is George R. R. Martin's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
What is George R. R. Martin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 21°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is George R. R. Martin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is George R. R. Martin's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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