Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper (born Grace Brewster Murray; December 9, 1906, New York City, United States; died 1992), was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. Hopper is best remembered for FLOW-MATIC. Hopper's honours include National Defense Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and Washington Award.
Grace Hopper’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Grace Hopper’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Grace in the U.S.?
#38
US rank in 2025
~536,340
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Grace’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Grace, according to the stars
Core essence
Grace is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Grace 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 Grace wants to be loved
Grace 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 Grace and watch them fall for you again.
How Grace creates
How Grace makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Grace creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Grace is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Grace 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 Grace leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Grace fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Grace's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Grace sits
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Grace’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Grace Hopper's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1906, 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.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Grace Hopper's birth date, December 9, 1906, 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 Grace’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Grace Hopper's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Grace Hopper combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Grace’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Grace Hopper, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.4° to 0.6° orb
Grace’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Grace’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° orb
Grace’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrinePluto2.0° to 2.6° orb
Grace’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.4° to 2.9° orb
Grace’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Grace’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Grace’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
Grace’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto5.6° to 6.7° orb
Grace’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.6° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Grace’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 9°01′ (moves 0.05° 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 Grace making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 12°40′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Grace feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°41′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Grace attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 19°54′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Grace is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 16°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Grace that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Grace’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Grace 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 Grace’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Grace Hopper, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Grace’s cards
Every card is computed from December 9, 1906, 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 Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Grace Hopper, 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
Grace’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11641, 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 James S. Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Grace Hopper at Wikipedia.
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 Grace Hopper.
Quick answers about Grace Hopper’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Grace Hopper?
- Grace Hopper was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1906, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- What was Grace Hopper's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1906 birth.
- What time was Grace Hopper 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 was Grace Hopper's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 9, 1906 birth date.
- What was Grace Hopper's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 9, 1906 birth date.
- Where was Grace Hopper's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Grace Hopper's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
