George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958, Amarillo, United States), aged 67, is an American writer (born 1958). Saunders's honours include Booker Prize, PEN/Malamud Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
George Saunders’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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George Saunders’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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
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George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of George is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with George and watch them fall for you again.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. George creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: George is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. George is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of George leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means George is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from George's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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George Saunders in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
George Saunders's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 2, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
George Saunders was born on December 2, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
George Saunders's birth date, December 2, 1958, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Saunders' date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- George Saunders combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for George Saunders, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.3° to 0.8° orb
George’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineUranus0.4° to 1.7° orb
George’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.6° to 1.2° orb
George’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
George’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb
George’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus2.2° to 2.5° orb
George’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.1° to 5.3° orb
George’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquarePluto5.3° to 6.3° orb
George’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineUranus5.7° to 6.8° orb
George’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has George making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 28°31′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. George is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosPisces 20°05′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. George is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 17°42′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has George needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. George is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron square Mars 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.5°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
George’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: George is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in George’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Saunders, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
George’s cards
Every card is computed from December 2, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for George Saunders, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1251926, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Saunders at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by George Saunders.
Quick answers about George Saunders’s chart
- How old is George Saunders?
- George Saunders is 67 years old, born December 2, 1958 in Amarillo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is George Saunders?
- George Saunders is a Sagittarius: born December 2, 1958, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- What is George Saunders's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 2, 1958 birth.
- What time was George Saunders born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is George Saunders's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 2, 1958 birth date.
- What is George Saunders's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 2, 1958 birth date.
- Where is George Saunders's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is George Saunders's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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