Greg Bear
Greg Bear (born August 20, 1951, San Diego, United States; died 2022), was an American writer best known for science fiction. Bear is best remembered for Blood Music. Bear's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hayakawa Award and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Greg Bear’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Greg
Greg Bear’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Greg in the U.S.?
#4761
US rank in 2025
~77,849
Americans share it since 1915
1961
its peak year
Greg ranked 247th among boys and 5,059th among girls in 1951, the year of this birth, with 739 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Greg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on G (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Greg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Greg apart
Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Greg, according to the stars
Core essence
Greg is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Greg is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Greg 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 Greg needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Greg wants to be loved
Greg 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 Greg and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Greg creates
How Greg makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Greg creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Greg 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Greg 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Greg fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Greg's birth date. Working below.
Where Greg sits
Six lines
Greg’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 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.
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 Greg Bear
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego 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 San Diego that night
Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at San Diego at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 8.5° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 80 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 32.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −57.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 81% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
How unusual Greg's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Uranus · Venus retrograde
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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Greg Bear's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Greg Bear was born on August 20, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Greg Bear's birth date, August 20, 1951, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Greg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Greg Bear's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Greg Bear combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Greg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Aries 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.4° orb
Greg’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb
Greg’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
Greg’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus4.6° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Greg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°53′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°30′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 20°30′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 17°56′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.2°
Greg’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Greg’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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 · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
More people like Greg
Other screenwriters
- Orson Scott Card1951
- Stellan Skarsgård1951
- Joe Pantoliano1951
- Bob Gale1951
- Peter S. Seaman1951
- Joy Harjo1951
Born in United States
- Orson Scott CardAmerican science fiction novelist (born 1951)
- Robin WilliamsAmerican actor and comedian
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Edward WittenAmerican theoretical physicist
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
More charts like Greg’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Micheal ClemonsAmerican football defensive end
- Darnell WrightAmerican football player (born 2001)
- T. J. EdwardsAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Rabbit years
- Kate GosselinAmerican television personality
- Edie FalcoAmerican actress
- Chiara FerragniItalian fashion blogger and influencer (1987-)
Also born on August 20
- Andrew Garfield1983
- Amy Adams1974
- Robert Plant1948
- Ke Huy Quan1971
- N. R. Narayana Murthy1946
- Linus Sebastian1986
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Troy FautanuAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Kevin Jobity Jr.American football defensive lineman, Syracuse (2022–202_)
- Jaylen ReedAmerican football player (born 2003)
Other Leo Rabbit charts
- Brandon SomAmerican poet
- John Ashberypoet from the United States of America
- Daniel KeyesAmerican author
- L. Q. JonesAmerican actor
Other Tidal Scholars
- Khalil MackAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Storm NortonAmerican football player from the United States
- Joe AltAmerican football player
- Ronnie StanleyAmerican football player (born 1994)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Thomasin McKenzieNew Zealand actress
- Jace NormanAmerican actor (born 2000)
- 24kGoldnAmerican rapper
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Greg’s cards
Computed from August 20, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317491 (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 The original uploader was Geoffrey.landis at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Greg Bear at Wikipedia, gregbear.com, 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 Greg Bear.
Quick answers about Greg Bear’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Greg Bear?
- Greg Bear was a Leo: born August 20, 1951, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Greg Bear's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1951 birth.
- What was Greg Bear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Greg Bear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Greg Bear's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Greg Bear's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
