Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks (born September 14, 1955, Sydney, Australia), aged 71, is an Australian-American journalist and author. Brooks's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Officer of the Order of Australia and Helmerich Award.
Geraldine Brooks’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Geraldine
Geraldine Brooks’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Geraldine in the U.S.?
#2447
US rank in 2025
~212,097
Americans share it since 1880
1930
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,197 American girls and 12 boys named Geraldine in 1955: 162nd among girls and 2,352nd among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Geraldine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
Geraldine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Geraldine apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction came in 2006, when Geraldine Brooks was 51.
The schooling ran through Bethlehem College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Geraldine Brooks was 25 when the work began in 1980.
The family line: married Tony Horwitz.
Wikipedia files Geraldine Brooks under Writers from Sydney, Jewish Australian writers and The Sydney Morning Herald people.
Leo XIV shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Bethlehem College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and University of Sydney
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2006), Helmerich Award (2009) and Officer of the Order of Australia (2016)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Working from
- 1980
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Geraldine, according to the stars
Core essence
Geraldine 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 Geraldine is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Geraldine needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Geraldine needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Geraldine wants to be loved
Geraldine wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Geraldine and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Geraldine creates
How Geraldine 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. Geraldine 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: Geraldine 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 7 is the seeker. Geraldine is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Geraldine channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Geraldine's birth date. Working below.
Where Geraldine sits
Six lines
Geraldine’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Geraldine Brooks
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sydney was Dabih, in Capricornus, 70.7° up.
Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 65 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sydney, Australia
- Lives in
- Sydney
Wikidata records Sydney as Geraldine Brooks's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Geraldine Brooks: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Geraldine's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Geraldine Brooks's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Geraldine Brooks was born on September 14, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Geraldine Brooks's birth date, September 14, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Geraldine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Geraldine Brooks' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Geraldine Brooks combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Geraldine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Leo 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Geraldine’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.8° to 3.8° orb
Geraldine’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.8° to 2.9° orb
Geraldine’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Geraldine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 25°50′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°22′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°48′ (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 square Sun 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.4°
Geraldine’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Geraldine’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
Born the same day as Geraldine
Leo XIV was born on September 14, 1955 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Sydney, at 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Geraldine
Other writers
- Connie Schultz1957
- Bruce Sterling1954
- Richard Powers1957
- Alan Hollinghurst1954
- Claudia Emerson1957
- Louise Erdrich1954
Born in Australia
- Anthony Albanese31st prime minister of Australia
- Peter C. DohertyAustralian immunologist
- FleaAustralian musician
- Margaret CourtAustralian tennis player
- Steve IrwinAustralian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
- Peter CareyAustralian novelist (born 1943)
More charts like Geraldine’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Chuck GrassleyUnited States Senator from Iowa since 1981
- Ron DeSantisAmerican politician (born 1978)
- John McCainAmerican politician
Born in Goat years
- David C. TurnleyAmerican photographer
- Leo SowerbyAmerican composer and church musician
- Joseph Krammplaywright, actor, director
Also born on September 14
- Leo XIV1955
- Sam Neill1947
- Nas1973
- Han2000
- Terry Dubrow1958
- Logan Henderson1989
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Margaret LeechAmerican historian and novelist
- F. Lauriston BullardAmerican journalist
- David WillmanAmerican investigative journalist
Other Virgo Goat charts
- Julio IglesiasSpanish singer and lawyer
- Júlio CésarBrazilian footballer
- Aaron PaulAmerican actor
- Dylan O'BrienAmerican actor
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Paula AbdulAmerican singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
- Sasha GreyAmerican actress, model, writer, DJ and musician; former pornographic actress
- Lando NorrisBritish and Belgian racing driver
- Julián AlvarezArgentine footballer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Bob SagetAmerican stand-up comedian
- Paul SculforBritish model
- Michael UrieAmerican actor (born 1980)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Geraldine’s cards
Computed from September 14, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Geraldine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260011 (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 Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Geraldine Brooks’s chart
- How old is Geraldine Brooks?
- Geraldine Brooks is 71 years old, born September 14, 1955 in Sydney, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Geraldine Brooks?
- Geraldine Brooks is a Virgo: born September 14, 1955, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Geraldine Brooks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1955 birth.
- What is Geraldine Brooks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Geraldine Brooks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Geraldine Brooks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Geraldine Brooks's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
